Sarah, To change the style, you have to do more than change the format. 1) Select the text you want to style. 2) Press ALT+O, then S to open the Styles Pane. 3) The default option most likely will be "clear all" which is what you want. This will put everything back to your Normal style. If that doesn't work, let me know. Later! Robert Lee Beach Assistive Technology Specialist Kansas City Kansas Community College 7250 State Avenue Kansas City, KS 66112 913-288-7671 rbeach@xxxxxxxxx On 8/30/2010 12:10 PM, sarah.jevnikar@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hi all, > I have some word documents to create which started their lives as > plain text files. How can I change the style in microsoft word so that > when I copy and paste text from these plain text files they appear in > a "normal" style as opposed to the "plain text" style? > Thank you for your help, > Sarah > > To subscribe or to leave the list, or to set other subscription > options, go to www.freelists.org/list/real-eyes > > > To subscribe or to leave the list, or to set other subscription options, go to www.freelists.org/list/real-eyes To subscribe or to leave the list, or to set other subscription options, go to www.freelists.org/list/real-eyes