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Old 01-28-2009, 03:18 PM
Shirley Munro Shirley Munro is offline Possible Virus in Word which alters formatting of entire document Windows XP Possible Virus in Word which alters formatting of entire document Office 2003
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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.
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Old 02-09-2009, 07:57 AM
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I literally just joined this forum to post the same exact issue. I'm sure like me, you've discovered that although the entire document takes on the characteristic you wanted to apply to only a selected piece of text, that UNDOING (whether by holding down CTRL + Z or clicking the undo icon) removes the formatting from the rest of the document, while applying it only to the text you originally wanted to affect. I find this to be unacceptable and unnerving, but I've literally come to expect this will happen when I try to format a selected area and now I almost automatically plan to undo what I've just done. How horrible is that?

Did you receive any more info or any other replies? I was thinking of uninstalling and reinstalling Word. If I do, I'll post my results. Take care...
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Old 02-09-2009, 02:43 PM
Shirley Munro Shirley Munro is offline Possible Virus in Word which alters formatting of entire document Windows XP Possible Virus in Word which alters formatting of entire document Office 2003
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Hi

No I didn't receive any other replies and think I will post it again on different areas of the forum in case anyone can help. You are the first person that I have heard from that encounters the same problem and it is very frustrating. Undoing really doesn't solve the problem as the file becomes ridiculously large and although it undoes the last operation, it mucks up the header and footer area which you have to keep going into and changing.

If you hear from anyone else I would appreciate you letting me know.

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Shirley
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