[mso] Re: Word 2007 Settings

Okay, that's good info.

Now a couple more Qs...

* does ANYONE else have access to your computer?
* do you ever use shortcut keys or key combinations? I.e., Ctrl + M will
cause the para to fully indent and Ctrl + T causes a HANGING INDENT, which
is what you are experiencing, it seems.

Try one more thing...hit Ctrl + Shift + * to show the hidden markers and
look/tell us if there is a MARKER where the line is causing the incorrect
indent.

Finally, if you can type up a sample page and send it to me TONIGHT, I'll
take a quick look at it. But I only have a little time tonight, if you can't
do it now...don't send it tomorrow/days from now and expect me to look at
it. (Sorry, some folks do that...days later.)

Plus...know that renaming the normal template as mentioned before will
"reset" your styles, as they are embedded into that template and renaming it
as David mentioned before will cause a new/fresh one to be created. However,
if you are in the habit of missing keys when typing, you MAY be hitting
those shortcut keys by mistake...hence causing the incorrect formatting by
your missed keystrokes.

Dian D. Chapman
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-----Original Message-----
From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Tim Schoon
Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 7:31 PM
To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [mso] Re: Word 2007 Settings

I haven't touched any of the defaults since I installed it back in October,
just that one day it started acting funny out of the blue. I'd hit Tab, for
example, to indent 5 spaces at the start of a paragraph and it would - but
then one day I was typing a sentence, and when the text wrapped to the next
line, it was also indented. It looked something like this:

"This sentence is to demonstrate the problem I'm having with Microsoft Word.
I do (we'll let it wrap here)"

becomes

"This sentence is to demonstrate the problem I'm having with Microsoft Word.
I 
        do (we'll let it wrap here)"

And that's not right. If anything, if it were the first sentence of a
paragraph, it should look like this:

        "This sentence is to demonstrate the problem I'm having with
Microsoft 
Word. I do (we'll let it wrap here)"

(I added quotes to separate the example text from the text of my e-mail)

I'm not sure how default styles or anything could have been changed - I
don't touch settings that I don't know what they do. I do know that at times
the auto bulleting is turned off when it shouldn't be. I hope that helps
some - if not, let me know and I'll try to type up a sample paper to use as
another example.

-----
Tim


-----Original Message-----
From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Dian Chapman
Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 7:17 PM
To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [mso] Re: Word 2007 Settings

Uninstalling/reinstalling will most often do little to solve a problem
because it rarely has to do with the system and is often another issue.

Are you saying that you've reset the defaults? Are you using styles? Do you
have a custom template? We need to understand more about what the problem is
to help fix it. It sounds like maybe the defaults styles have been changed,
so you'll either have to change them back or create better ones for your
papers.

You can check the styles/formatting by clicking in the problem para and
hitting Shift/F1 to investigate what setting are there. 

But if you can tell us more about the steps you are taking/have taken...we
can try to give you a more solid fix.


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