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unwanted paragraph borders
I'm using a bottom border as a full-width underline for 5 section headings in
a document (a resume), as an ordinary underline crosses dropped capitals & so looks bad. This works fine until I print, then the "paragraph" immediately following such a heading also prints with such a bottom border, except it's thinner & inconsistently applied. These also don't show in either Print Layout or Print Preview, although they sometimes show in Layout at very specific zooms (114% & 147%). This originally occured for all 5 instances, but by copying & editing a correctly printing heading I've managed to "fix" this for some but not for all 5 instances simultaneously, & not consistently the same ones. The identified "style" is same for all 5 headings, & the "style" for the following "paragraph" in each case where it prints with the unwanted border doesn't specify any border format at all. It's driving me nuts, & preventing me from getting a job! (Proficiency with Word is among the requirements for the type of work I do.) Using Word 2002, but have printed from Word 97 & 2003 with same results except for the inconsistent application mentioned above. Would appreciate any suggestions. |
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Well, this seems odd. What happens if you place the insertion point in a
paragraph that have the undesired border and then press Ctrl+Q (which removes direct formatting)? If the above doesn't make a difference, take a look at this article: http://word.mvps.org/faqs/apperrors/corruptdoc.htm. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "voit2007" wrote: I'm using a bottom border as a full-width underline for 5 section headings in a document (a resume), as an ordinary underline crosses dropped capitals & so looks bad. This works fine until I print, then the "paragraph" immediately following such a heading also prints with such a bottom border, except it's thinner & inconsistently applied. These also don't show in either Print Layout or Print Preview, although they sometimes show in Layout at very specific zooms (114% & 147%). This originally occured for all 5 instances, but by copying & editing a correctly printing heading I've managed to "fix" this for some but not for all 5 instances simultaneously, & not consistently the same ones. The identified "style" is same for all 5 headings, & the "style" for the following "paragraph" in each case where it prints with the unwanted border doesn't specify any border format at all. It's driving me nuts, & preventing me from getting a job! (Proficiency with Word is among the requirements for the type of work I do.) Using Word 2002, but have printed from Word 97 & 2003 with same results except for the inconsistent application mentioned above. Would appreciate any suggestions. |
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Thank you for your response, Stefan. The Ctrl+Q approach had already been
attempted in that I had already tried deleting all formatting & starting over from just plain text in a new document. The link to the page re corrupted documents & templates also failed to provide a direct solution, but hints in it about where hidden auto-formatting instructions are stored led me back to looking at that aspect again, & so to what appears to be at least a work-around if not yet full comprehension. :-) Replacing the problem "paragraphs" with identically formatted ones from elsewhere in the document (then editing the text back to what it originally read) appears to have resolved the problem of the unwanted underlining in the print version, but only after I had turned off "Other paragraph styles" on the "Auto Format" tab in the "Auto Correct Options" page & understood that I had to include the "new paragraph - carriage return" formatting symbol from the end of the previous "paragraph" in the text selections for this. So at least the document now prints correctly, & I have a slightly better understanding of Word's auto formatting feature. Thanks again for your response. Just knowing someone was willing to affer assistance was very encouraging. "Stefan Blom" wrote: Well, this seems odd. What happens if you place the insertion point in a paragraph that have the undesired border and then press Ctrl+Q (which removes direct formatting)? If the above doesn't make a difference, take a look at this article: http://word.mvps.org/faqs/apperrors/corruptdoc.htm. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "voit2007" wrote: I'm using a bottom border as a full-width underline for 5 section headings in a document (a resume), as an ordinary underline crosses dropped capitals & so looks bad. This works fine until I print, then the "paragraph" immediately following such a heading also prints with such a bottom border, except it's thinner & inconsistently applied. These also don't show in either Print Layout or Print Preview, although they sometimes show in Layout at very specific zooms (114% & 147%). This originally occured for all 5 instances, but by copying & editing a correctly printing heading I've managed to "fix" this for some but not for all 5 instances simultaneously, & not consistently the same ones. The identified "style" is same for all 5 headings, & the "style" for the following "paragraph" in each case where it prints with the unwanted border doesn't specify any border format at all. It's driving me nuts, & preventing me from getting a job! (Proficiency with Word is among the requirements for the type of work I do.) Using Word 2002, but have printed from Word 97 & 2003 with same results except for the inconsistent application mentioned above. Would appreciate any suggestions. |
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Thank you for the feedback.
The fact that replacing the paragraphs worked suggests that there was some sort of weird corruption, after all. Obviously, it is difficult to tell from a distance. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "voit2007" wrote in message news Thank you for your response, Stefan. The Ctrl+Q approach had already been attempted in that I had already tried deleting all formatting & starting over from just plain text in a new document. The link to the page re corrupted documents & templates also failed to provide a direct solution, but hints in it about where hidden auto-formatting instructions are stored led me back to looking at that aspect again, & so to what appears to be at least a work-around if not yet full comprehension. :-) Replacing the problem "paragraphs" with identically formatted ones from elsewhere in the document (then editing the text back to what it originally read) appears to have resolved the problem of the unwanted underlining in the print version, but only after I had turned off "Other paragraph styles" on the "Auto Format" tab in the "Auto Correct Options" page & understood that I had to include the "new paragraph - carriage return" formatting symbol from the end of the previous "paragraph" in the text selections for this. So at least the document now prints correctly, & I have a slightly better understanding of Word's auto formatting feature. Thanks again for your response. Just knowing someone was willing to affer assistance was very encouraging. "Stefan Blom" wrote: Well, this seems odd. What happens if you place the insertion point in a paragraph that have the undesired border and then press Ctrl+Q (which removes direct formatting)? If the above doesn't make a difference, take a look at this article: http://word.mvps.org/faqs/apperrors/corruptdoc.htm. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "voit2007" wrote: I'm using a bottom border as a full-width underline for 5 section headings in a document (a resume), as an ordinary underline crosses dropped capitals & so looks bad. This works fine until I print, then the "paragraph" immediately following such a heading also prints with such a bottom border, except it's thinner & inconsistently applied. These also don't show in either Print Layout or Print Preview, although they sometimes show in Layout at very specific zooms (114% & 147%). This originally occured for all 5 instances, but by copying & editing a correctly printing heading I've managed to "fix" this for some but not for all 5 instances simultaneously, & not consistently the same ones. The identified "style" is same for all 5 headings, & the "style" for the following "paragraph" in each case where it prints with the unwanted border doesn't specify any border format at all. It's driving me nuts, & preventing me from getting a job! (Proficiency with Word is among the requirements for the type of work I do.) Using Word 2002, but have printed from Word 97 & 2003 with same results except for the inconsistent application mentioned above. Would appreciate any suggestions. |
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