Bolding text

[MacAnnie]

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

This is such a fundamental function that I can't believe I'm asking a question about it. However, every time I try to bold or italicize certain words in my document, Word makes changes to the entire document. For example, I highlight two words in a section header, hit 'Bold' on my toolbox, and the everything is bolded.

Has anyone else had this problem? Can you help?

Thanks!
Annie

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Hi Annie,

With the cursor in a problematic word, click on Format | Style. Click
Modify. UNCHECK automatically update, and CHECK add to template. OK
everything and exit back to document. If the problem occurs in other
documents, repeat the same procedure.

The problem is that a style is set to automatically update. It is
possible, depending on how the document is formatted, that you will need
to repeat this procedure for more than one style in the same document.

Full explanation (written for WinWord) here:
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/WholeDocumentReformatted.htm
(hit refresh a few times if using safari)

 

[MacAnnie]

You saved my life! Thanks Daiya!

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

You're welcome. Glad to help.