


Word keeps changing the language, even if I tell it to ignore special characters. Stop Word from Changing the Language The Problem: In the Modify Style dialog box, uncheck the "Automatically update" box, click the OK button, and then click the Apply button in the Style dialog box. In Word 2000, choose Format » Style to display the Style dialog box, click the style name in the Styles list, and click the Modify button. Uncheck the "Automatically update" box and click the OK button. In Word 2003 or Word XP, choose Format » Style, click the paragraph's style in the Styles and Formatting task pane, click the drop-down arrow, and choose Modify to display the Modify Style dialog box. If the paragraphs aren't soft returns, this is probably what's wrong. Word has decided automatically to update the styleand either it's the style that you've applied to all the paragraphs in the document, or it's the style on which all the styles you've used are based (in a default document, heading styles and some other styles are based on the Normal style). If so, choose Edit » Replace, enter ^l in the "Find what" box and ^p in the "Replace with" box, and then click the Replace All button. To check, click the Show/Hide button on the Standard toolbar to show formatting marks, and see if the paragraphs end with a mark rather than a mark. Your paragraphs aren't really paragraphs, but rather continued paragraphs with "soft returns" (Shift+Enter) between them. The Solution:įirst, click the Undo button or press Ctrl+Z to remove the bullets. I applied bullets to two paragraphs I selectedbut Word applied the bullets to every paragraph in the document.
