Word 2007 - Different paragraphs need different alignments

[Jackntx]

I have a document in Word 2007. When I select one paragraph to change the
alignment, ALL paragraphs in the document change to the new alignment. How
can I stop that from happening?

 

[Jay Freedman]

I have a document in Word 2007. When I select one paragraph to change the
alignment, ALL paragraphs in the document change to the new alignment. How
can I stop that from happening?

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/WholeDocumentReformatted.htm.