Microsoft Word suddenly bolds everything?

Factual Questions
1

Sometimes I’ll highlight some text and delete it. Once the text disappears, everything around it becomes bold. Or justifies right. Or changes fonts. Quite without warning or apparent rhyme or reason.

Other times, I’ll paste some text into a document from an e-mail, or other source. Same thing. Crazy formatting changes to whole sections of my document.

I’m sure Word thinks it’s being extremely helpful, but it isn’t. Is there something I can do to turn this “feature” off? Failing that, is there any way to have it change things so that they conform to my preferences?

Thanks for any help you can provide.

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Word pastes with formatting by default, so just turn that off. On the other thing, what probably happened was that you deleted past the formatting token. Either don’t do that, or else set your default formats to match the formats you actually work with.