Bold/Italic/etc applies to whole document instead of selected text

[Jan_Z]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

In some documents (not all) formatting commands get applied to the whole document instead of just selected text. Highlighting a word, pressing Cmd-B for example bolds the whole thing.

Weird thing is that pressing Cmd-Z (undo) corrects this, i.e. results in the selected text being bold and the effect disappearing from the rest of the document.

The exact same thing happens with other formatting options - italics, bullets, etc.

This is appear to be related to the platform the docs originated from, nor any specific action I'm able to discern.

It's mighty annoying - has anyone seen this happen? Any ideas on how to make this go away??

Thanks!

Jan

 

[CyberTaz]

Not uncommon at all - it happens quite often based a simple but inadvertent
settings change in most cases. The explanation & fix is on the following
page. Although it's PC based the material applies in Mac Word as well:

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

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac