Office 2004 Word Formatting Issues

[burghlaw]

My wife is having problems with formatting in Word. She tells me that when she highlights text for applying font/formatting attributes, the formatting is applied to the entire page. When she used the undo command, the attributes revert back to the text that she originally highlighted. Does anyone know how to fix this problem?

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

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 doc 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
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