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Changing format changes entire document, not just highlighted text
ARGH! Suddenly, in Word 2003, when I try to bold a word, or center just one
line, ALL text is bolded or centered, not just the highlighted text. By using "undo" and "redo" I can get it to look right, but it's making me crazy as all documents take dozens of more clicks and much swearing. (Yes, I have used "Show/Hide paragraph marks" and there are definitely hard returns everywhere.) This happens only in newly created documents, not existing ones. I checked my Normal template and it's dated 2004 so I certainly didn't change anything about it. This started a few days ago. I have scanned twice for viruses and nothing was found. Use PC-Cillin which scans all incoming emails and attachments. Running Windows 2000 Professional. |
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Changing format changes entire document, not just highlightedtext
See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...eformatted.htm .
GoldCountyGal wrote: ARGH! Suddenly, in Word 2003, when I try to bold a word, or center just one line, ALL text is bolded or centered, not just the highlighted text. By using "undo" and "redo" I can get it to look right, but it's making me crazy as all documents take dozens of more clicks and much swearing. (Yes, I have used "Show/Hide paragraph marks" and there are definitely hard returns everywhere.) This happens only in newly created documents, not existing ones. I checked my Normal template and it's dated 2004 so I certainly didn't change anything about it. This started a few days ago. I have scanned twice for viruses and nothing was found. Use PC-Cillin which scans all incoming emails and attachments. Running Windows 2000 Professional. |
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Changing format changes entire document, not just highlighted
THANK YOU!!!! I don't know why this worked because the box "automatically
update style" was NOT checked, but it worked anyway. Also, the Microsoft instructions don't say that in Word 2003, you have to right-click in order to get the Modify style dialog box. But many, many thanks. New documents no longer give me this problem. "garfield-n-odie [MVP]" wrote: See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...eformatted.htm . GoldCountyGal wrote: ARGH! Suddenly, in Word 2003, when I try to bold a word, or center just one line, ALL text is bolded or centered, not just the highlighted text. By using "undo" and "redo" I can get it to look right, but it's making me crazy as all documents take dozens of more clicks and much swearing. (Yes, I have used "Show/Hide paragraph marks" and there are definitely hard returns everywhere.) This happens only in newly created documents, not existing ones. I checked my Normal template and it's dated 2004 so I certainly didn't change anything about it. This started a few days ago. I have scanned twice for viruses and nothing was found. Use PC-Cillin which scans all incoming emails and attachments. Running Windows 2000 Professional. |
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Changing format changes entire document, not just highlighted
The method described for Word 2002 in the referenced article should work for
Word 2003, though it is true that in Word 2003 you can (sometimes) access Modify Style more easily via the shortcut menu (depending on the context). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "GoldCountyGal" wrote in message ... THANK YOU!!!! I don't know why this worked because the box "automatically update style" was NOT checked, but it worked anyway. Also, the Microsoft instructions don't say that in Word 2003, you have to right-click in order to get the Modify style dialog box. But many, many thanks. New documents no longer give me this problem. "garfield-n-odie [MVP]" wrote: See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...eformatted.htm . GoldCountyGal wrote: ARGH! Suddenly, in Word 2003, when I try to bold a word, or center just one line, ALL text is bolded or centered, not just the highlighted text. By using "undo" and "redo" I can get it to look right, but it's making me crazy as all documents take dozens of more clicks and much swearing. (Yes, I have used "Show/Hide paragraph marks" and there are definitely hard returns everywhere.) This happens only in newly created documents, not existing ones. I checked my Normal template and it's dated 2004 so I certainly didn't change anything about it. This started a few days ago. I have scanned twice for viruses and nothing was found. Use PC-Cillin which scans all incoming emails and attachments. Running Windows 2000 Professional. |
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