Hi

If someone can help me with this then it will solve a problem which I have encountered intermittently for several years. I have a fairly long document, 20 pages or more which has nothing more that text and formatting in it. When I go to change formatting, for example of bullets or bold some text, the entire documents gets bullets applied to it or the entire document becomes bold. In addition, it increase the size of the Footer area. Clicking on the Undo button will reverse this but in turn the file size gets increased every time this happen. Once this has happened to the file once it is impossible to stop it happening. I have tried copying and pasting to an entirely new file but the problem still occurs. I have even tried scanning in the entire document but this has not helped either.

I am attaching 2 images - one of the text I was working with before I tried to add in one more bullet point at the end and the second image illustrates what it does when I do this.

I have spoken to Microsoft Support in Australia regarding this issue but got nowhere.

This is not a new or recent problem. I have experienced this on very odd occasions for at least 5 years now.

I would really appreciate any help that I can get as I cannot find any solution to the problem.

Shirley

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I have been having exactly the same problem. Our IT deptarment had no idea what the problem was. I reinstalled Word. That did not help. I erased the "Normal" template, thinking that might be the source of the problem. That did not help either.

Would appreciate if anyone knows what this problem is and how to solve it.

I think I just solved the problem. It has to do with the settings on the "Normal" paragraph style. There is an "automatic update" setting that changes all text in the document that is designated as that style. Since I never mess with styles, my entire document changes every time a change formatting of any text.

Why it increases the file size like that, I have no idea.

Instructions for changing the setting are found here:

Format Changes Entire Document in Microsoft Word

So far I haven't had the problem recur, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed!

It would be great if that solved the problem but it doesn't. This option by default is unselected and is something that you select if you want it to universally apply a style change to an entire document. In some instances, particularly when using Numbering, every Enter key that has been pressed to create new paragraphs ends up being numbered so I have document where the numbering is 1,348!!! If you do find a fix please let me know.

Shirley,
Did you ever get a fix for this. I'm having the same problem and it's not because I have the Auto-Update checked. It just happens with bullets with me.

Regards,
Jim

Hi Jim

I didn't get any other replies but I did manage to get mine problem fixed by ensuring that the automatic update was not selected.

Can you be a bit more specific about the problem with the bullets.

Shirley