I have a large document with several sections so that I can change parts of my headers, footers, and body of text without disrupting everything.  I have a paragraph on page 15 that is supposed to be Times New Roman 12 - full adjusted.

I have a paragraph on page 20 that is Arial Bold 10 centered.  There are 2 section breaks in the pages between.

No matter what I do to one paragraph it also changes the other one (it doesn't affect the paragraphs in between). 

I have deleted and put in new section breaks and can't find anything that links these two together.  Any ideas what could cause this or how I can see what is actually going on behind the scenes to identify the problem?

Hi

According to your description, Problems may happen during the following condition.

When you copy a selection that contains a section break and paste it into a Word document, the text above the section break assumes the section level formatting of the pasted section break. This behavior will also occur if you copy the last paragraph mark and paste it into a document because the last paragraph mark is an implied section break.
For example, if you insert a continuous section break in a document, the section above the inserted section break will be Continuous, while the section below will be New Page.

For more information, please refer to the following link:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/176314

Hope it helps

Best regards