Formatting applied to whole document instead of selected text

[David Gee]

Hello,

When I format a word I select like applying bold or underline, it applies
this formatting to the whole document and I need to "command Z" in order to
correct this.
Strangely when I sent a document from my mac to someone with Office 2003 the
problem was exactly the same.
Any idea of what is happening and how to correct this?

Thanks a ton,

David

 

[Michel Bintener]

The dodgy behaviour is part of the document itself, which is why it will
manifest in any version of Word, Windows or Mac. Everything you write is
based on Normal style, unless you explicitly tell Word to use a different
style. Think of a style as a list of features applied to a paragraph/word,
such as font size, font type and so on. In your case, you have accidentally
set Normal to update automatically, i.e. if you make any changes to some
text based on Normal style, these changes will be reflected in every
instance of the paragraph style. To turn this annoying behaviour off, click
on Format>Style, make sure Normal is selected in the list, then click on the
Modify button. In the new window, deactivate the checkbox which reads
"Automatically update", then hit OK as many times as necessary to get back
to your document, which should now behave properly.

Hello,

When I format a word I select like applying bold or underline, it applies
this formatting to the whole document and I need to "command Z" in order to
correct this.
Strangely when I sent a document from my mac to someone with Office 2003 the
problem was exactly the same.
Any idea of what is happening and how to correct this?

Thanks a ton,

David

--
Michel Bintener
Microsoft MVP
Office:Mac (Entourage & Word)

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[joehayes77]

Michael,

Thanks for the post. This had caused me major problems.

Regards,

Joe