How do I turn off automatic formatting in Microsoft Word?

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lets say if i want to make changes in a doc.
for ie
i would like to change all the repeat fields to the sama at the same time.

Sorry there, Daniel, I don't understand your question. -Leo

I have all auto-formatting and auto-correct turned off. I do not want Word to think for me because it usually is wrong. The problem I have is with styles. Word continually changes the style from normal to something else. This affects the font, font size, indentation, margins, etc... I want everything to be normal, I will make any changes from normal. How can I prevent Word from automatically changing the style?

is there a simple way to turn off ALL the features of auto correct, in one stroke? thanks

howcan i turn off the archive of intermessages on msn.........this is no ones buisness but mine and need it not on there .l Iam running winodws xp
thank u where do i go to to find it again
deb

I have MS Word 2002. For some reason Word wants to format the entire document whenever I apply formatting to selected text. What is also strange is when I click the undo arrow button Word then appropriately formats the text that I wanted it to. It's as if Word first formats the selected text and then proceeds on to format the entire document even when not commanded to do so. I've turned off all autoformatting options to no avail.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

How come my text gets deleted when I space or put another letter before a word in a sentence?

How do you get word to simply put "" around words.

I have to type " and then space.
If I don't do the space A's become Ä, E becomes Ë etc

I have turned all the items off in automatic format. I am creating a document that has two fonts in it. Word is constantly shifting my Hebrew font to a Roman Times font and RT to Hebrew. I can reverse the change by hitting the undo automatic format.

FORMATTING PROBLEMS SOLVED: HAVE A LOOK AT THIS WEBSITE:
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/WholeDocumentReformatted.htm

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