When I enter Heading 1 or hyperlinks styles then press enter, the next line is formatted as a Heading 1 or a hyperlink style as well.



To get back to the normal style, I have to select the text with the wrong format, and clear formatting and then apply the normal style?

In Word 2019, how do I modify styles so that the normal style is applied on the next line after entering Heading 1 or hyperlinks?

Thanks in advance.

1. Ctrl+Shift+N applies the Normal style to text. Click in the paragraph without selecting text to apply to whole paragraph.
2. For the style attribute of "style for following paragraph" to apply, you must be at the end of the current paragraph. If you are not, you are breaking the current paragraph and the current style continues to apply.
3. By default, unless altered by the user, the style for the following paragraph for Heading 1 is the Normal style.

I am unsure what you are saying about hyperlinks. That is a character style. Like any character formatting, if you continue typing while the formatting is in effect, it continues. Press Ctrl+Spacebar to return selected text to the underlying formatting.

The Clear Formatting button on the Home tab applies the Normal style and removes direct formatting.

If the hyperlink formatting "spills over" to the text following the hyperlink, turn it off by selecting the affected text and then press Ctrl+SpaceBar (which removes font formatting, including character styles, from the selection).

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