Font styles apply to whole document

when I select a line of text and click bold (for example) the entire document becomes bold and loses its previous formatting. Clicking 'undo' resolves the problem but it's maddeningly annoying. The same thing happens if I select larger or smaller amounts of text and if I choose to re-size the font, colour it or so on - the problem occurs with all types of formatting.
I've been using MS word on OSx for years without this problem, so I'm thinking it might be a setting that I've altered by accident.
any suggestions most gratefully received
thanks

Please post questions regarding Office on Microsoft's own forums for their Mac products since this forum is for troubleshooting Apple Software Update for Windows, a software package for Windows designed to update Apple products that run on Windows, and not related to Microsoft Office
http://www.officeformac.com/productforums

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