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I'm having issues with Word 7 on my Windows 8.1 laptop. While typing a word doc, I finish a sentence and hit enter to start a new paragraph and it changes the font, changes to italics from non italics, and centered text from align left (default). I then change it back to the way I had it-Times Roman 12 pt., non-italics, and left align and continue typing. Later on, it will do the same thing. This is very frustrating. Anyone have an answer to this problem? Do I need to upgrade to Office 2013? Will that solve the issue.
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Every style in Word has a "Style for following paragraph" defined. For most styles, this is the same style, but for some styles (notably heading styles), the following style is different (for headings, it's Normal). If you get different formatting when you press Enter, it may be that you are getting a different style.