changing styles /bold/italics not limited to selected text

[andre5151]

Hi,

may be this problem has been discussed before, but I still want to
describe something the bugs me regularly:

- when I change the style (bold/underscore/italics) of one single word,
it very often happens that the whole document will be changed. Pressing
cmd + Z would then undo the change for all the text except the selected
text: Example


word1 word1 word3

I select word1, the press cmd+b: result: all three words will be bold
then I press cmd+z: result: word1 remains bold (as intended intitially)

I could live with this IF the following would NOT happen: for each
cmd+z in the above context, one new paragraph character is added to the
headline and to the footer respectively, making a mess of whatever page
layout was set before.

This tends to happen more often in texts with bullet lines and tables,
but is not limited to them.

It happens no matter if a new paragraph character is included in the
text selection to be modified or not.

Can anyone help?

 

[Michel Bintener]

Hi Andre,

your Normal style is set to update automatically. This means that any text
based on the Normal style (if you've never heard of styles, then this means
every single word in your document, since Normal is the default setting for
paragraphs) will change as soon as you format a single word. In other words,
if you set a word's typeface to bold, the entire document will change.

To prevent this from happening, go to Format>Style, select Normal from the
list, then click on Modify in the lower right corner. In the window that
shows up, make sure to uncheck the box that says "Update automatically",
then click on OK and close all the dialogue windows to get back to your
document. Your text should now behave the way you would it expect it to do,
i.e. if you format a single word, only that word will be affected and not
the entire document.

Hi,

may be this problem has been discussed before, but I still want to
describe something the bugs me regularly:

- when I change the style (bold/underscore/italics) of one single word,
it very often happens that the whole document will be changed. Pressing
cmd + Z would then undo the change for all the text except the selected
text: Example


word1 word1 word3

I select word1, the press cmd+b: result: all three words will be bold
then I press cmd+z: result: word1 remains bold (as intended intitially)

I could live with this IF the following would NOT happen: for each
cmd+z in the above context, one new paragraph character is added to the
headline and to the footer respectively, making a mess of whatever page
layout was set before.

This tends to happen more often in texts with bullet lines and tables,
but is not limited to them.

It happens no matter if a new paragraph character is included in the
text selection to be modified or not.

Can anyone help?

--
Michel Bintener
Microsoft MVP
Office:Mac (Entourage & Word)

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[andre5151]

Hi Michel,

this helped, thank you!

 

[michael.katz]

Thanks so much! I've been searching for a solution for a long time.
Problem solved.