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vanover@bcsaic.boeing.com (Jann VanOver) writes:

>In article <1992Sep7.094252.8691@vax.oxford.ac.uk> banks@vax.oxford.ac.uk
>writes:

>>Various people have suggested command+option m or the cursor to the
>>far left of the screen as the way to perform 'select all' in  Word 4.
>>A word of warning, however: Microsoft have a very particular use of
>>the word 'all', which *excludes* footnotes, page numbers and - I
                                  ^^^^^^^^^
>Not True!  If you select text with footnote markers in it, copy, and
>paste to another Word document, the footnotes are pasted with it.

>>think - headers and footers (you have to open the windows for these
>>and then use your preferred 'select all' command again).

>  Also not true.  Headers, footers and page numbers are all part of the
>section formatting.  As long as you get the "section Break" you will get
>these too.

Well, sort of yes and no.  The original poster asked about selecting all
and then making changes to the font style and size - 
nothing at all to do with copying and pasting as far as I recall.  So 
while I think Jann is right to say that selected text, copied and pasted
may carry footnotes with it, it is also true - in Word 4 and Word 5
(I've just tried both!) - that 'select all' highlights only the main
body of text (no footnotes, footers, headers or page numbers) and
stylistic changes made will only affect the selected text.

As others have said, another good reason to learn about styles.

derek@netcom.com (Derek LeLash) writes:

>Quite true, and another good reason to use styles for such sweeping format
>changes.  Explaining these fully is beyond the scope of one posting (and
>seemingly most books about Word :-), but one of these days I may cobble
>together a Word FAQ list that would cover it.  Any interest out there?

I for one certainly am interested, as I get hopelessly confused by them.

Marcus Banks, Oxford