Automatically update style

[Dilemma]

How do you turn this really annoying feature off, the help menu is of no use
on thise topic? Once I work that out I might ask why the hell anyone would
want to use it anyway?????

 

[Dilemma]

Steps involved are:

I'm writing up a document from the normal template. I highlight some text to
make it bold and then the WHOLE document (including headers etc) go bold.
Same happens with bullets or numbers and indenting.

 

[Stefan Blom]

Please see the following article:

"Formatting applied to one paragraph affects the entire document"
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/WholeDocumentReformatted.htm

 

[Dilemma]

Thanks Stefan but that doesn't work because the Automically update style box
is not ticked in the first place?

The problem described is the same though.

 

[Stefan Blom]

The problem is not necessarily with the Normal style. What other
styles (if any) are you using?

For a description of other possible problems with automatic
formatting, see:
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting/TameAutoFormat.htm.