Ron Stephens said:
I've seen the answer to this here before. Someone please help...
It might have been me. Every time it comes up, I mentally reclassify
the Word 'designer' who implemented that as a delta minus wearing a
high viz jacket and carrying a cute little rod that picks up chewing
gum from the pavement.
When I change the formatting on a paragraph (to bold, center, etc...) the
change is applied to the entire document - until I hit Undo, which returns
the unselected paragraphs to their previous (and desired) formatting.
How do I tell Word to only change the selected text - not the entire
document?
Did you see a brief little panel while working on the document
"Update styles to match paragraph?"
or some other thinly veiled warning that Word was about to destroy your
document?
To lessen the problem:-
Navigate through the following maze of twisty passages, all alike:-
Format » Autoformat » Options » Autoformat As You Type. Right on the
bottom of that sheet is *the* most egregious example of Microsoft
brainlessness. More abysmal even than than Bob. It is a checkbox
labelled "Define styles based on your formatting" Uncheck it.
Even then, you are not out of the woods. Sometimes, if you have the
temerity to change the font, alignment or something else for a whole
paragraph in the document, a sheet will pop up asking if you want to
update styles to match the paragraph. Of course you must answer NO to
that.
A missing option is "No NO NEVER!! ...and don't ever ask me again! You
abject blithering moron!!!"
But for some reason, it is not there.
Bah!!!
