WD2000: Changing Text Formatting Also Changes Paragraph Formatting

• Microsoft Word 2000

SYMPTOMS

If you select all of the text in a paragraph, excluding the paragraph mark, and change the font formatting of the text, the formatting changes are applied to the paragraph mark also. This affects any subsequent paragraphs when you press ENTER from any point within this paragraph. This functionality is different from versions of Word earlier than Microsoft Word 97.

NOTE: To see the paragraph mark and other nonprinting characters, click the Show/Hide button on the Standard toolbar.

CAUSE

When you apply font formatting to a selection of text that spans a paragraph, Word assumes you want to change the paragraph formatting even though you did not select the paragraph mark.

WORKAROUND

To format all of the text within a paragraph without affecting the paragraph formatting (excluding the paragraph mark), select all but one character of the paragraph and then apply the font formatting. Then select the remaining character and apply the same font formatting.

MORE INFORMATION

In some earlier versions of Word, if you want to apply character formatting to the paragraph mark, you must select it before you apply the font formatting; otherwise, the paragraph mark does not take on the new character formatting.

In Word 97 and 2000, if all of the text in the paragraph is selected (excluding the paragraph mark), character formatting changes are applied not only to the text of the paragraph but also to the paragraph mark.

Selecting white space before or after the text has no effect on this behavior.

REFERENCES

For more information about character formatting, click Microsoft Word Help on the Help menu, type character formatting in the Office Assistant or the Answer Wizard, and then click Search to view the topic.

For more information about paragraph formatting, click Microsoft Word Help on the Help menu, type troubleshooting paragraph formatting in the Office Assistant or the Answer Wizard, and then click Search to view the topic.

For additional information about formatting, click the article numbers below to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q212377 WD2000: General Information about Auto Features

Q212205 WD2000: Outline Numbering Changes Heading Style Indents

Q211932 WD2000: Reveal Formatting Help Not on Toolbar

Additional query words:

Keywords : kbusage kbdta wd2000
Version : WINDOWS:2000
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbprb