Something has happened to one of my documents and I cannot figure out
what. It is 12 pages long. There is a "range" of text from the middle
of page 2 to the middle of page 10 that acts like one huge paragraph.
I have turned on the paragraph marks and it is not one huge paragraph.
There are hundreds of paragraph marks within that range.

If I place the cursor anywhere within that range, say on page 9, but
do NOT select any text, and then try to apply a heading style such as
using Alt+Ctrl+1 for Heading 1, that style is applied to every
paragraph in the affected range. If I do the same thing anywhere else
in the document, it behaves normally. That is, just that paragraph is
affected.

I can apply styles than heading styles and they seem to work OK.

If I try to increase the line leading (space before) setting of any
portion of text within the range, the increase only affects the first
line of the range as if it were a huge paragraph. This happens whether
I select some text or not.

Can anyone suggest what might have happened and, more importantly, how
I can repair it?

I suspect that it has something to do with a table of contents. At the
top of this range of text (middle of page 2), I had a table of
contents. When I opened the document, whioch I have been working on
for several days, the table of contents was "broken" in the middle.
The first half looked normal, then there was a "break" and the
remaining lines had different margins or offsets. I tried deleting the
table of contents, but this did not fix the problem.

Thanks

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Running Word 2000 SP-3 on Windows 2000

I suspect that you have somehow gotten your text inside a field (possibly
the TOC field). Try pressing Alt+F9 to display the field codes and see what
happens. Alternatively, see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...eformatted.htm

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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"LurfysMa" wrote in message
...
Something has happened to one of my documents and I cannot figure out
what. It is 12 pages long. There is a "range" of text from the middle
of page 2 to the middle of page 10 that acts like one huge paragraph.
I have turned on the paragraph marks and it is not one huge paragraph.
There are hundreds of paragraph marks within that range.

If I place the cursor anywhere within that range, say on page 9, but
do NOT select any text, and then try to apply a heading style such as
using Alt+Ctrl+1 for Heading 1, that style is applied to every
paragraph in the affected range. If I do the same thing anywhere else
in the document, it behaves normally. That is, just that paragraph is
affected.

I can apply styles than heading styles and they seem to work OK.

If I try to increase the line leading (space before) setting of any
portion of text within the range, the increase only affects the first
line of the range as if it were a huge paragraph. This happens whether
I select some text or not.

Can anyone suggest what might have happened and, more importantly, how
I can repair it?

I suspect that it has something to do with a table of contents. At the
top of this range of text (middle of page 2), I had a table of
contents. When I opened the document, whioch I have been working on
for several days, the table of contents was "broken" in the middle.
The first half looked normal, then there was a "break" and the
remaining lines had different margins or offsets. I tried deleting the
table of contents, but this did not fix the problem.

Thanks

--
Running Word 2000 SP-3 on Windows 2000

Just guessing... but if Suzanne's ideas don't help, you could try "Edit
Replace", search for ^13 and replace all with ^p.

It does sound to me like some corruption has happened, and the paragraph
marks no longer work properly in that range.
The replacement might fix that.

Greetings,
Klaus


"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
I suspect that you have somehow gotten your text inside a field (possibly
the TOC field). Try pressing Alt+F9 to display the field codes and see
what
happens. Alternatively, see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...eformatted.htm

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup
so
all may benefit.

"LurfysMa" wrote in message
...
Something has happened to one of my documents and I cannot figure out
what. It is 12 pages long. There is a "range" of text from the middle
of page 2 to the middle of page 10 that acts like one huge paragraph.
I have turned on the paragraph marks and it is not one huge paragraph.
There are hundreds of paragraph marks within that range.

If I place the cursor anywhere within that range, say on page 9, but
do NOT select any text, and then try to apply a heading style such as
using Alt+Ctrl+1 for Heading 1, that style is applied to every
paragraph in the affected range. If I do the same thing anywhere else
in the document, it behaves normally. That is, just that paragraph is
affected.

I can apply styles than heading styles and they seem to work OK.

If I try to increase the line leading (space before) setting of any
portion of text within the range, the increase only affects the first
line of the range as if it were a huge paragraph. This happens whether
I select some text or not.

Can anyone suggest what might have happened and, more importantly, how
I can repair it?

I suspect that it has something to do with a table of contents. At the
top of this range of text (middle of page 2), I had a table of
contents. When I opened the document, whioch I have been working on
for several days, the table of contents was "broken" in the middle.
The first half looked normal, then there was a "break" and the
remaining lines had different margins or offsets. I tried deleting the
table of contents, but this did not fix the problem.

Thanks

--
Running Word 2000 SP-3 on Windows 2000