My Annoying MSWord Problem
At work I installed MSWord 2003. Big mistake. In addition to total and complete bloat ("Task pane" anyone? wtf...), it also had one very annoying "feature": whenever I would change the formatting for a word or sentence (e.g. bold, italics, nothing fancy), it would change the formatting for the entire friggin page. I would make a word bold, but MSWord would make the entire document bold. Only by then hitting CTL-Z could I undo the bold for the rest of the document, but often that would make the things that I already had bolded all messed up.

After a little searching around, I found a solution. Turns out that MSWord 2003 has the feature "Automatically update [style]" enabled by default. That means whenever you make a formatting change that could possibly be applied to a style (you know, line spacing, indentation, font, anything), it would go ahead and change it for the style, thus the entire document. Well, this was a huge pain in the ass, and searching for it wasn't easy, so here is the fix for any other people searching for the answer.

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- posted by frank crist @ 9:59 AM