

It is much better to understand the cause of the problem, then you can make the changes you need.įormatting in Word is based on styles.

Continually pressing Ctrl+Z is a pain, however. When this type of change occurs, you can press Ctrl+Z right away (the Undo shortcut) and Word reverses its action. What is going on, and how can this be corrected? You select the paragraph, click the Bullets tool, and bullets appear in front of all the paragraphs in the document-not just the one you selected.

Or, you decide you want to add a bullet to the start of one paragraph. You select the paragraph, click on the Bold tool on the Home tab of the ribbon, and all the paragraphs in your document change to bold-not just the one you selected. In this particular case, you want to format a particular paragraph as bold face. Perhaps you've had this happen to you: You are typing along, and you decide you need to make a formatting change in your document.
