Paragraph Selection Behavior

[faceman28208]

(Paragraph styles only)

In Word. if I have nothing selected and change the style, the style
applies to the entire paragraph.
If I partially select two paragraphs and change the style, the style
applies to the entire paragraphs.

If I partially select text in ONE paragraph and change the style, I
get a bastardize half application of the style (apparently treating it
like a character style).

Is there any way in word to customize to change the last behavior so
that it would apply to the entire paragraph?

 

[Terry Farrell]

There's not much you can do about it. You really need to ensure that you
select the final paragraph marker to stop this happening. Turning off 'Keep
Track of Formatting' sort of helps by hiding the bastardized style, but it
is still there.

 

[Klaus Linke]

There's not much you can do about it. You really need to ensure that you
select the final paragraph marker to stop this happening. Turning off
'Keep Track of Formatting' sort of helps by hiding the bastardized style,
but it is still there.

In Word 2007, there's a check box at the bottom, "Disable linked styles" --
which is the technical term, though I like "bastardized styles" better
<g> -- that gets rid of the problem completely.

Klaus

 

[Klaus Linke]

there's a check box at the bottom, "Disable linked styles"

at the bottom of the "Styles and Formatting" task pane, that is

Klaus