Apply style to body to match selection on Word document renders unknown results

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Published on 2010-03-22T12:14:15Z Indexed on 2010/03/22 14:11 UTC
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While formatting a Word document, I applied the action, "Apply style to body to match selection".

The document ended up looking very wrong with the formatting all over the place - it even affected the numbers inside tables.

I'm not sure what happened or how to correct this.

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