Style applies to whole document

[TCorp]

I made some modifications to my styles but now when I want to bullet or
italicize (etc) some text the whole document gets bulleted or italicized
(etc). None of my new styles have bullets or italics, just bolded with a
different font face.

This happened to me before and the only remdey that worked was to use a
clean normal.dot file. But I would like to have these styles working! The
problem seems to appear after I've added the new styles to my tool bar.

Word 2003 SP1
Win XP Pro SP2

TIA,
Ted.
I hope I am posting in the correct newsgroup, if not please point me to the
correct one.

 

[TCorp]

I forgot to mention that if I do undo right after applying the style, the
document goes back to normal and the selected text goes to the format I
wanted, such as bulleted or italicized.

It is as if there is a macro running behind the button that contains several
steps and I can "undo" the last step which applies the change to the whole
of the document.

-Ted

 

[garfield-n-odie]

Turn off "automatically update" in the style definitions as
described in
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/WholeDocumentReformatted.htm .

 

[TCorp]

Thank you very much! It works perfectly.

Turn off "automatically update" in the style definitions as described in
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/WholeDocumentReformatted.htm .