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![]() I write quite long documents (50 to 60 sides) using Word 2007. I quite often need to use formatting such as bullets or numbering. However, I note that changing bullets on one page changes a whole bunch of bullets (or even removes them completely) elsewhere. I can't see this immediately as I am on one page while the changes are elsewhere. How can I stop Word from doing this? I know that sometimes control-z gets rid of surplus formatting but I surely don't need to do this every time? I have tried to look at some pages explaining bulleting in word - they make little sense to me. All I want to do is to change the formatting on one page without messing anything else up. Why does Word seem to want to change styles affecting the whole document when you only want to change the text in question? -- Peter Fraser |
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See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...eformatted.htm.
-- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP (Message posted via NNTP) "Peter Fraser" wrote in message ... I write quite long documents (50 to 60 sides) using Word 2007. I quite often need to use formatting such as bullets or numbering. However, I note that changing bullets on one page changes a whole bunch of bullets (or even removes them completely) elsewhere. I can't see this immediately as I am on one page while the changes are elsewhere. How can I stop Word from doing this? I know that sometimes control-z gets rid of surplus formatting but I surely don't need to do this every time? I have tried to look at some pages explaining bulleting in word - they make little sense to me. All I want to do is to change the formatting on one page without messing anything else up. Why does Word seem to want to change styles affecting the whole document when you only want to change the text in question? -- Peter Fraser |
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Most styles are based on Normal. If Normal has somehow been changed to
update automatically, then this setting may be propagated to the rest. In theory, changing Normal would change the styles dependent on it, but in practice this seems to affect only previously unused styles, so it's no help for styles in existing text. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Peter Fraser" wrote in message ... Thanks for this. Is there any way to stop all styles from updating rather than one at a time? 'Stefan Blom[_3_ Wrote: ;468083']See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...eformatted.htm. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP (Message posted via NNTP) "Peter Fraser" wrote in message ...- I write quite long documents (50 to 60 sides) using Word 2007. I quite often need to use formatting such as bullets or numbering. However, I note that changing bullets on one page changes a whole bunch of bullets (or even removes them completely) elsewhere. I can't see this immediately as I am on one page while the changes are elsewhere. How can I stop Word from doing this? I know that sometimes control-z gets rid of surplus formatting but I surely don't need to do this every time? I have tried to look at some pages explaining bulleting in word - they make little sense to me. All I want to do is to change the formatting on one page without messing anything else up. Why does Word seem to want to change styles affecting the whole document when you only want to change the text in question? -- Peter Fraser - -- Peter Fraser |
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To turn off Automatically update for all paragraph styles in a document, you can
run the following macro: Sub TurnOffAutoUpdate() Dim s As Style For Each s In ActiveDocument.Styles If s.Type = wdStyleTypeParagraph Or _ s.Type = wdStyleTypeParagraphOnly Then s.AutomaticallyUpdate = False End If Next s End Sub For assistance, see http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP (Message posted via NNTP) "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Most styles are based on Normal. If Normal has somehow been changed to update automatically, then this setting may be propagated to the rest. In theory, changing Normal would change the styles dependent on it, but in practice this seems to affect only previously unused styles, so it's no help for styles in existing text. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Peter Fraser" wrote in message ... Thanks for this. Is there any way to stop all styles from updating rather than one at a time? 'Stefan Blom[_3_ Wrote: ;468083']See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...eformatted.htm. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP (Message posted via NNTP) "Peter Fraser" wrote in message ...- I write quite long documents (50 to 60 sides) using Word 2007. I quite often need to use formatting such as bullets or numbering. However, I note that changing bullets on one page changes a whole bunch of bullets (or even removes them completely) elsewhere. I can't see this immediately as I am on one page while the changes are elsewhere. How can I stop Word from doing this? I know that sometimes control-z gets rid of surplus formatting but I surely don't need to do this every time? I have tried to look at some pages explaining bulleting in word - they make little sense to me. All I want to do is to change the formatting on one page without messing anything else up. Why does Word seem to want to change styles affecting the whole document when you only want to change the text in question? -- Peter Fraser - -- Peter Fraser |
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