MS Word Aligns the Entire Document?

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I have a long word document that has occasional new chapters in it. The formatting for each chapter has a picture and a title. These pages are supposed to be centered. The rest of the document is aligned to the left.

However, when I highlight the appropriate text to JUST change a few lines, it formats the entire document to be aligned in the center. I am only trying to apply it to a small portion of text. Even when I add extra spacing, I just can't seem to get rid of word from trying to "help" me. It seems it always wants to change multiple paragraphs. 

I have disabled the widow/orphans options and it still keeps doing this. I am using MS word 2003. Does anyone have any ideas?

The Phlebob · Accepted Answer

Two possibilities:

1. You're not using real paragraphs, but using SHIFT/Enter to end every line.  In essence, you have one great big paragraph.  To fix this, you'd have to go and replace the appropriate end-of-lines with true Enters (end of paragraph).
2. More likely (and easier to fix) you have Automatically Update Style set so whenever you make a change to the paragraph style in one place, it propagates to every other paragraph as well.  You can fix that this way:

1.	Click in an affected paragraph.
2.	Click on the Format->Styles and Formatting menu item.
3.	In the bottom part of the sidebar that pops up, the style for your paragraph should have a bold box around it.
4.	Hover the cursor over the style. A listbox arrow should appear. Click it.
5.	Select Modify from the list box.
6.	Click the Format button and select Paragraph.
7.	If the Automatically Update checkbox is checked, uncheck it. 
8.	OK out of everything.

All paragraphs in the document with that style should adjust themselves. 

Now, if you want to carry this one step further and fix the style on the template your document is based on (probably Normal.dot, but not necessarily), do this:

1.	Click the Tools->Organizer menu item.
2.	In the left-hand list box, find and click on the style you changed.
3.	Click the Copy button between the two list boxes.
4.	Click OK.

Hope that helps.

? · Answer

go with all your text textile by keeping down CTRL and hitting the A key or use your mouse to go with basically the area you desire to justify. In word 2007, locate the JUSTIFY icon interior the PARAGRAPH area of the abode menu area on the superb of the demonstrate screen, probably there'll be 4 suggestions .... click on the outstanding-hand icon (the only with equivalent length lines) and it incredibly is going to left AND superb justify your text textile. of course, the right region of the place the JUSTIFY buttons are varies in case you have customised your setup and in distinctive variations of word even if if it incredibly is a incredibly popular characteristic and you ought to be waiting to locate it without too lots attempt.

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