How to stop entire document style changing when changing 1 line?

[Guest]

I am running Word 2003.

When ever I try to make a change to the formating of a single line, Word
automatically applies the change to the entire document. Pressing Ctrl-Z
reverts the entire document back leaving the original change I had intended
in place. This is getting very time consuming.

How do I change this? I can not seem to find the setting that prevents this
from happening.

Thanks,
Troy A. Courtney

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

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

Note, however, that this would not be a problem if you used the appropriate
paragraph styles instead of applying direct formatting to Normal style.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Jay Freedman]

On Sun, 1 May 2005 13:49:12 -0700, "Troy A. Courtney" <Troy A.

I am running Word 2003.

When ever I try to make a change to the formating of a single line, Word
automatically applies the change to the entire document. Pressing Ctrl-Z
reverts the entire document back leaving the original change I had intended
in place. This is getting very time consuming.

How do I change this? I can not seem to find the setting that prevents this
from happening.

Thanks,
Troy A. Courtney

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

 

[Guest]

Thank you Jay, that did the trick.

Troy

On Sun, 1 May 2005 13:49:12 -0700, "Troy A. Courtney" <Troy A.


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

 

[Guest]

Suzanne,

Thank you. You are correct of course. I just need to take the time to set up
the style that I am going to use.