Formatting part of text

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While working on a document originally created by someone else - when I
try to highlight and embolden (if there is such a word) one line, the
whole document changes to bold - how do I confine my formatting to what I
have highlighted?
 
Well, it doesn't ordinarily happen. It's not clear what causes this, but
most likely it's a poorly written add-in.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
 
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Well, it doesn't ordinarily happen. It's not clear what causes this,
but
most likely it's a poorly written add-in.
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Sorry I don't understand that.
It happens in a bog standard Word document with no inserts pictures,
tables or anything but text.
 
All I can say is that I've never seen it, and there are many, many other
Word users who have never seen it. Do you have any add-ins installed?

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
 
An add-in is a "helper" application that adds functionality to programs such
as Word, and if the add-in is poorly written, as Suzanne wrote, strange
things may occur. If you are using Word 2007, look in Office button | Word
Options, Add-Ins category.
 
Since this is Word 2007, the problem *must* be an add-in, at least if the
Normal style is affected, because you cannot set the "Automatically update"
option for that style in the user interface.
 
Since this is Word 2007, the problem *must* be an add-in, at least if
the Normal style is affected, because you cannot set the
"Automatically update" option for that style in the user interface.
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I'm not sure the blame lies with me.
The document was composed on a friend's Word 2003. He found this effect
happening and it continued when I tried to edit the document on my pc.
Could this be so and in which case if I unticked the update-style
option on his version might that solve it?
 
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