Office2003 autoformats my ENTIRE document, and the file size is HU

[Guest]

Hi everyone

I have recently ungraded to Office2003. It's great, with the exception of a
problem i appear to be having with Word.

I have a 22 page doc, that started out at a mere 100K. Everytime i try and
make a style change (increase font, bold, align, add bullets) word then
applied that new style to my ENTIRE document, ie: adding a bullet to one
line, adds a bullet to every single line in my doc. Every line in the doc
gets reformated.

If i then go ctrl-z to undo the applied style, all the incorrectly applied
styles all correctly removed, and i am left with just my one style -
correctly applied.

After this process has happened a couple of times, Word then seems to grow
in memory size drastically (300megs) and more importantly the file size has
increased from 100k to 150Meg!!! I have ensured the 'autoSave function is
unselected, so have no idea why this is happening.

As my file has grown so huge - when i try and apply a style change now, it
practically hangs my system while trying to apply this silly auto style
across my entire doc. I have sometimes resorted to killing the process, and
doing a repair. In some cases (but frustratingly not all cases) this has
reduced my file size considerably - although not to it's original small 100K
size.

I'm sure this is something i'm doing wrong as i have found no mention of
bugs relating to Office2003 of this nature. Can anyone let me know what i
have to switch on / off.

Regards
Giles

 

[JulieD]

Hi Giles

you might be better off posting in a word newsgroup - try
microsoft.public.word.newusers
they're a helpful bunch

Cheers
JulieD

 

[JulieD]

i try to be
good luck

Cheers JulieD

You've helpful too

 

[Guest]

Cheers JulieD

You've helpful too

Hi Giles

you might be better off posting in a word newsgroup - try
microsoft.public.word.newusers
they're a helpful bunch

Cheers
JulieD