Word format change affects whole document

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I am using Office 2010 on Windows 7 on my compnay laptop.

When I’m editing a document and I make a formatting change (Change words to bold or italic for example) the formatting change initially affects the whole document. If I subsequently perform an “undo” (CTRL-Z) the document reverts to the previous formatting, leaving my selection formatted as I wish.

While this does not destroy other formatting in the document it is very annoying to have to do the DO-Undo reoutine every time.

Any thoughts?

Keith

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The paragraph style on the text you are changing has a setting called “Automatically Update”.

I have noticed that in Word 2010 this setting no longer appears in the Modify Style dialog for the Normal style. If this is the style used in your document then we will probably need to use VBA to turn this setting off for that particular style.

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Hi Andrew,
Actually, you can get at it in Word 2010. From the Home Tab expand the Styles category (click small arrow in bottom right corner of the Styles area).
From there, the “in-use” format should be highlighted. Right click on the format (or select the drop down arrow for it, and chooose “Modify”. Uncheck the “automatically update” box. Note that not all styles have the automatically update box.

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It looks like Normal style, as Andrew observed, does not have Automatically Update. Character styles, plus Normal style (and perhaps others), do not have Automatically Update.

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BigMac56

I am pretty sure the setting used to be there. Perhaps it was removed in one of the service pack updates for Word 2010. I’m using version 14.0.6123.5001 (32 bit) and the Modify Styles dialog doesn’t display the automatically update setting on the Normal style.

However we can still toggle the setting via VBA despite this example of Microsoft trying to stop us running with scissors :o:

ActiveDocument.Styles(“Normal”).AutomaticallyUpdate = Not ActiveDocument.Styles(“Normal”).AutomaticallyUpdate

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