Word 2004 applies changes to whole, not selection

[William Gallagher]

When I select a word, paragraph or any short section of my document
and then choose bold, italic, centre or anything else, Word 2004
changes my entire document to bold, italic or whatever - exactly as if
I'd done Select All first.

Bizarrely, after it's done this, the original selected text remains
highlighted and if I choose Undo, the document returns to how it was -
but the words in my selection keep their new bold, italic or whatever.

I thought I'd got used to just choosing, say, Apple-B and immediately
Apple-Z but it's just wrecked some reasonably tricky formating.
Unfortunately, that wrecked passage of text was 20,000 words behind me
so I didn't see it when I saved and closed the document, thereby
ending any chance of just standing on the Undo function until it
sorted things out.

Am I doing something silly? I would love someone to say I was, and
explain it so I can stop doing it!

And - on an unrelated issue - did Microsoft change the navigation
keystrokes since Word X?

William

 

[William Gallagher]

Am I doing something silly? I would love someone to say I was, and
explain it so I can stop doing it!

And - on an unrelated issue - did Microsoft change the navigation
keystrokes since Word X?

William

I was doing something silly: somehow, and who knows why, Word was
taking my wish to make a single sentence bold or italic to mean that I
wanted to modify the Normal style. I would automatic updating and
switched it off.

William

 

[Clive Huggan]

(e-mail address removed) (William Gallagher) wrote in message


I was doing something silly: somehow, and who knows why, Word was
taking my wish to make a single sentence bold or italic to mean that I
wanted to modify the Normal style. I would automatic updating and
switched it off.

William

Does that mean you solved it, William? -- you discovered you had ticked
"Automatically update styles"? -- it's not clear from your 2nd post because
of a typo in your last sentence.

If you haven't fixed it, post back. If you *have*, congratulations!

Cheers,

Clive Huggan

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