When I format a paragraph, why is it a global change?

[John]

I'll select a paragraph, hit the font color icon in the toolbar, and it
changes every paragraph in the document. When I undo (does not work if doc
is large), it will undo the global but keep the selected paragraph. Why? If
I select parts of the paragraph, it seems to work correctly. I've even just
had the cursor in the paragraph without selecting it all and hit the bullet
icon (or change the ruler) and it will cause a global change. This is Word
2003.

Thanks .... this is getting way too frustrating!!!!!

John

 

[Jay Freedman]

I'll select a paragraph, hit the font color icon in the toolbar, and
it changes every paragraph in the document. When I undo (does not
work if doc is large), it will undo the global but keep the selected
paragraph. Why? If I select parts of the paragraph, it seems to
work correctly. I've even just had the cursor in the paragraph
without selecting it all and hit the bullet icon (or change the
ruler) and it will cause a global change. This is Word 2003.

Thanks .... this is getting way too frustrating!!!!!

John

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

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Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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[John]

Thank You! Exactly what I needed and such a quick MVP response.