[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You might see whether
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/styl...xtChanges.html explains
what you're seeing.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Lorretta" wrote in message
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Thanks, Doug, Stefan, and Suzanne. I'll go back and try again and watch
carefully. I'm not pasting from the Web, but maybe there are soft returns
there instead of hard returns -- I'll check that out.

I also don't know if this problem is related, but when I work in one
document and have everything formatted in 12-pt Arial, then cut and paste
that material into another document, definitely in its own paragraph
(i.e., I
have used hard returns), everything that was bold in the 1st document is
roman in the 2nd, and everything that was roman is bold. The pasted-in
material is also 16 point instead of 12 pt. I have my Word Options,
Advanced, Cut and Paste settings set to "Match Destination Formatting, but
the destination document (2nd doument) is also Arial 12 pt.

Is this related to my problem with Normal style or an entirely different
situation?

Thanks again to all for your help.

Lorretta

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

To add to what Doug and Stefan have said, before you assume that
automatic
updating is your problem (especially if you have pasted content from the
Web), turn on the display of nonprinting characters and make sure that
you
are actually dealing with separate paragraphs and not a single long
paragraph connected by line breaks.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Lorretta" wrote in message
...
I'm desperate. Can Suzanne S. Barnhill or someone update her comments
in
"Formatting applied to one paragraph affects the entire document." I
am
using Word 2007 and cannot get the VBA macro to work. I followed the
instructions at
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting...eformatted.htm, but
when
I hit "Enter," the cursor just goes to the next line. So I exited VBA,
which
took me back to the document, I saved it, and the problem remains.

I would appreciate any help at all. I cannot work with Word changing
things
willy-nilly like this.


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