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How to remove autoformat

Apr 24, 2007 5:29PM PDT

In MS World when you highlight one line, the whole line becomes highlighted. And similarly, when you select 'align left or right' for a particular line, the whole document become aligned. Please forward a best and permanent solution for that problem. Thanks

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Re: Word problems
Apr 24, 2007 5:42PM PDT

1. I suppose you mean Word, not World.

2. "When you highlight a line, the line becomes highlighted." That seems correct behaviour. You wouldn't want half a line highlighed if you highlight a line. By the way, what do you mean with 'highlighting' and how do you do it?

3. The unit for alignment in Word is a paragraph, not a line. So if the whole document is a paragraph, it's correct behavior also. Check "View all non-printable characters" in Tools>Options>View and see if the lines are ending in a 'new line'-symbol (arrow) or a paragraph symbol.

Hope this helps.

Kees

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Autoforat option
Apr 24, 2007 6:11PM PDT

In MS Word, when you select one word and make it highlighted or bolt the whole documents (Pages 1-7) becomes highlighted and similarly when you align the word to left side the whole documents goes to left side. My question is that please intimate me where i will find that option to correct it. Thanks

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Re: Word problems
Apr 24, 2007 7:33PM PDT

You can't align words in MS Word, only paragraphs. So you're still not clear.
The bold problem seems clear however. That's no official option. That's an error.

Things to try:
1. Find and delete your default template normal.dot (using Windows Explorer or My Computer)
2. Run Word in Safe mode to see if that makes a difference: http://wordprocessing.about.com/od/troubleshootin1/qt/safemode.htm
3. Repair MS Office by running setup from the Office CD.

Kees

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I agree with Kees.
Apr 24, 2007 7:52PM PDT

And more about the align problem.

If you have any line of typing which spills over to the next line there is a hidden "soft line break" at the end of the line. This means that attempting to align left a line of typing will align the whole paragraph to the left.

If you have two lines of typing separated by a soft line break and want to align just one of the lines, you need to separate the lines with a hard line break by pressing Enter at the end of the line. That way each line is treated as a separate paragraph.

Mark

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I agree with Mark..
Apr 24, 2007 8:08PM PDT

Morevover, apart from 'soft line breaks' there are 'hard line breaks' (shift-enter). A copy-paste from some sources (pdf, mail, browser) may result in a document with only such hard line breaks and no paragraph mark at all. And that's rather fatal if you want to align only part of it.

So it could (partially) be a problem with this specific document (and not with Word generally) also.

Hope this helps.

Kees