Text Alignment

[Lee]

I first made a heading in a left text alignment, and then I tried to make the
next line centered for a title. The problem was when I tried to center the
line because the heading before my title also centered on the page. I then,
after much deliberation, found a way to highlight the entire heading and then
change it back to left alignment. The body of the paper below the title was
supposed to be left aligned, so I changed it left. Then, as I am not
surprised, the title also went left. I am frustrated because this Word 2003
edition is fairly new to me still, and this problem did not occur with the
older word (2000?) that I used to have. I tried to change some of the
settings, but I could not find the correct one.

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

It sounds as if all of the text in question has the same style applied, and
that that style has the Automatically Update option turned on.

To solve the immediate problem, choose Format - Styles and Formatting.
Right-click the style that's being used (Normal?), and choose Modify Style.
In the Modify Style dialog box, remove the check next to Automatically
Update.

If you are using the same style for everything, there are many advantages to
using different styles for different things. There are Heading 1, Heading 2,
etc. styles, as well as a variety of other built-in styles. They give you
leverage for controlling formatting of documents, as well as make working in
outline mode (which is a great tool for easy/quick document reorganization)
possible They also help automated table of contents.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/WholeDocumentReformatted.htm