Thanks Graham-----when I saw your reply I thought I was home free. I renamed
both Normal.dots. I reopened a document I typed early with the said problem
and it was not fixed. Also if I apply the "normal" format , a good portion
of my text becomes square blocks and unreadable. This also happens if I copy
and paste the contents of my document in question, into a new blank document
and click "match destination formattting"...a good portion of my text turns
to blocks. Also spell check does not "spell check" under both of those
scenarios. I also tried Detect and repair----no fix. Any other suggestions?

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

This is often an indication of a corrupt template. Rename normal.dot to
oldnormal.dot and see if the problem goes away.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org




MikeTU wrote:
On several occasions when assembling a document with word, my words
in a paragraph are cut off at the margin (and continued on the next
line) and I can not figure out what setting in word formats
paragraphs to make words stay intact.