Good Afternoon!



I have a document I am working on and I need to change the color of one of the headings to red. When I say "one of the headings," I mean one occurrence of the heading. I want the other occurrences of the same heading level to stay black. Every time I try to change the single heading, it changes all of them.

Is there any way to do this?

Immediately after the headings have reformatted, you can press Ctrl+Z to undo the modification.

For a permanent fix, see http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting...eformatted.htm.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

Microsoft 365 apps for business
Windows 11 Professional

Using undo or Ctrl+Z is actually changing the one I want to have red back to black as well.

Then go to the link that Stefan gave you.
I suspect you are doing the Ctrl+Z before the other headings change, though.

I believe this is the same link:
Formatting applied to one paragraph affects the entire document

Undoing immediately after the style has changed should work. But if you turn off the automatic updating of the style, as discussed in the article, you avoid the problem altogether.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

Microsoft 365 apps for business
Windows 11 Professional

I don't know why it isn't working, but it isn't. Automatic updating is turned off. When I change the font to red, all of the items that use that style are turned red. I check to make sure, then I click on undo. Then everything, including the one I need to be red, goes back to black.

Make sure that you turn off the "Update automatically" setting for the correct style. It is set on a style-by-style basis. The macro in the article is set up to be used with the Normal style only.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

Microsoft 365 apps for business
Windows 11 Professional