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orvn

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Jan 11, 2011
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Toronto, Canada
Hey guys,

I was wondering if someone here might have advice for me. Someone sent me a Word .doc which is behaving oddly. It's not a docx, indicating it was probably made on an older version of Word.

Here's the problem:

Whenever I change the formatting in this doc, the entire document is affected. I mean I might have one line selected and I italicize it, but all 36 pages become italicized.​

That's just the start of it. It behaves in a really peculiar way all around.

I've included a video (.mov) demonstration of this issue.
[Watch it here or download (save link as)]

Please note that this video contains an audio component (me speaking).

I'm really good with Pages and the rest of iWork and I'm okay with Word, but certainly not comprehensively versed. Advice?
 
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