Unintended format changes

[George in Atlanta]

After converting to Word 2007, I am having trouble with unintended format
changes appearing in my document. When I change the format for a section in
one spot in the document, the same formatting changes are applied to other
sections of the document. I am not using automatic update in my styles.
Does anyone have suggestions on how to stop this.

 

[pegfishr]

I am having the same problem in Word 2003. Can somebody help us out with
this? Thanks.

 

[pegfishr]

out a post farther down. It has the solution. search format changes.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

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

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

 

[George in Atlanta]

Suzanne,
A belated thank you for your advice. I just got a chance to try your
solution and think it worked.

George

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I'm glad you found it helpful.

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

 

[George in Atlanta]

The saga continues. When I opened the file I thought had been corrected, I
had text that not only was formatted differently than intended, but I was not
able to reformat the text by using standard formatting options such as
clicking the B to remove boldface. When I changed the text to normal, it
formatted as intended.

I ran the macro in your article both with and without spaces around the =
sign. With each method, pressing enter was not followed by the screen
closing and returning to the document. I was expecting some sort of message
with what to do next. Perhaps I didn't do it properly.

I also am having trouble switching to a new style set in an already
formatted document. The instructions in Word make me think this was supposed
to be rather simple. Is there a secret?

George