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From: Melissa on 16 Mar 2010 01:52
I am using Word 2000.
I inherited a document and started setting up formats for my own styles,
particularly Normal. I then used the format brush to change certain
paragraphs to Normal. One paragraph is not behaving as expected. The whole
paragraph has been changed to Normal, i.e. Arial 10 but the last 2 words are
size 12. I have tried applying the Normal style directly to the whole
paragraph and to the last 2 words only but the size just won't change.

Any help?
From: Melissa on 16 Mar 2010 02:09
To add on: I know I can just select the words and change the font to 10
manually.
But I'm interested to find out why the size won't change by applying a style
to it.

"Melissa" wrote:

> I am using Word 2000.
> I inherited a document and started setting up formats for my own styles,
> particularly Normal. I then used the format brush to change certain
> paragraphs to Normal. One paragraph is not behaving as expected. The whole
> paragraph has been changed to Normal, i.e. Arial 10 but the last 2 words are
> size 12. I have tried applying the Normal style directly to the whole
> paragraph and to the last 2 words only but the size just won't change.
>
> Any help?
From: Doug Robbins - Word MVP on 16 Mar 2010 03:06
To remove directly applied font formatting so as to return the text to the
formatting as defined in the style, select the text and then use
Ctrl+Spacebar.

--
Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com

"Melissa" <Melissa(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:D8719DC9-71E8-4F7B-8E85-DCF21C5066CB(a)microsoft.com...
> To add on: I know I can just select the words and change the font to 10
> manually.
> But I'm interested to find out why the size won't change by applying a
> style
> to it.
>
> "Melissa" wrote:
>
>> I am using Word 2000.
>> I inherited a document and started setting up formats for my own styles,
>> particularly Normal. I then used the format brush to change certain
>> paragraphs to Normal. One paragraph is not behaving as expected. The
>> whole
>> paragraph has been changed to Normal, i.e. Arial 10 but the last 2 words
>> are
>> size 12. I have tried applying the Normal style directly to the whole
>> paragraph and to the last 2 words only but the size just won't change.
>>
>> Any help?

From: Melissa on 16 Mar 2010 04:34
Thanks Doug.
But why did Word not change the font size after I applied the Style to it?

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:

> To remove directly applied font formatting so as to return the text to the
> formatting as defined in the style, select the text and then use
> Ctrl+Spacebar.
>
> --
> Hope this helps.
>
> Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
> services on a paid consulting basis.
>
> Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com
>
> "Melissa" <Melissa(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:D8719DC9-71E8-4F7B-8E85-DCF21C5066CB(a)microsoft.com...
> > To add on: I know I can just select the words and change the font to 10
> > manually.
> > But I'm interested to find out why the size won't change by applying a
> > style
> > to it.
> >
> > "Melissa" wrote:
> >
> >> I am using Word 2000.
> >> I inherited a document and started setting up formats for my own styles,
> >> particularly Normal. I then used the format brush to change certain
> >> paragraphs to Normal. One paragraph is not behaving as expected. The
> >> whole
> >> paragraph has been changed to Normal, i.e. Arial 10 but the last 2 words
> >> are
> >> size 12. I have tried applying the Normal style directly to the whole
> >> paragraph and to the last 2 words only but the size just won't change.
> >>
> >> Any help?
>
From: Doug Robbins - Word MVP on 16 Mar 2010 05:37
Because the font in those words had direct formatting applied to it, which
over-rides to formatting of the style.

--
Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com

"Melissa" <Melissa(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2652CB7D-EF84-49B0-AD5F-2FF1865054D5(a)microsoft.com...
> Thanks Doug.
> But why did Word not change the font size after I applied the Style to it?
>
> "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:
>
>> To remove directly applied font formatting so as to return the text to
>> the
>> formatting as defined in the style, select the text and then use
>> Ctrl+Spacebar.
>>
>> --
>> Hope this helps.
>>
>> Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
>> services on a paid consulting basis.
>>
>> Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com
>>
>> "Melissa" <Melissa(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:D8719DC9-71E8-4F7B-8E85-DCF21C5066CB(a)microsoft.com...
>> > To add on: I know I can just select the words and change the font to 10
>> > manually.
>> > But I'm interested to find out why the size won't change by applying a
>> > style
>> > to it.
>> >
>> > "Melissa" wrote:
>> >
>> >> I am using Word 2000.
>> >> I inherited a document and started setting up formats for my own
>> >> styles,
>> >> particularly Normal. I then used the format brush to change certain
>> >> paragraphs to Normal. One paragraph is not behaving as expected. The
>> >> whole
>> >> paragraph has been changed to Normal, i.e. Arial 10 but the last 2
>> >> words
>> >> are
>> >> size 12. I have tried applying the Normal style directly to the whole
>> >> paragraph and to the last 2 words only but the size just won't change.
>> >>
>> >> Any help?
>>
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