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Trouble with Word doc. originally done in Word Perfect
Hi. I am trying to reformat a document that was converted from Word Perfect to Word (I am not sure which version it was originally converted to, but I am using 2003). Most of the pages are OK, but there is the odd one that has the title about 1.5-2 inches from the top margin. It will not move with page layout. The only way I can get it to move up to 1 inch margin is to put the top margin measurement to a negative number. It works, but it's confusing, especially since others will work on the document. Is this fixable somehow? Thanks! -- Colleen E |
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Trouble with Word doc. originally done in Word Perfect
Have you checked Format Paragraph, Spacing, Before?
"Colleen E" wrote: Hi. I am trying to reformat a document that was converted from Word Perfect to Word (I am not sure which version it was originally converted to, but I am using 2003). Most of the pages are OK, but there is the odd one that has the title about 1.5-2 inches from the top margin. It will not move with page layout. The only way I can get it to move up to 1 inch margin is to put the top margin measurement to a negative number. It works, but it's confusing, especially since others will work on the document. Is this fixable somehow? Thanks! -- Colleen E |
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Trouble with Word doc. originally done in Word Perfect
When you open a WP document in Word you tend to get a huge number of
(largely unnecessary) section breaks. Any heading style with Space Before will retain the space after a section break. -- 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. "Colleen E" wrote in message .. . Hi. I am trying to reformat a document that was converted from Word Perfect to Word (I am not sure which version it was originally converted to, but I am using 2003). Most of the pages are OK, but there is the odd one that has the title about 1.5-2 inches from the top margin. It will not move with page layout. The only way I can get it to move up to 1 inch margin is to put the top margin measurement to a negative number. It works, but it's confusing, especially since others will work on the document. Is this fixable somehow? Thanks! -- Colleen E |
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Trouble with Word doc. originally done in Word Perfect
Thanks Suzanne. I hope I have put my reply in the correct place. I have checked, there are no page breaks that I can see. Any other thoughts? Thanks, Colleen. Colleen E Wrote: Hi. I am trying to reformat a document that was converted from Word Perfect to Word (I am not sure which version it was originally converted to, but I am using 2003). Most of the pages are OK, but there is the odd one that has the title about 1.5-2 inches from the top margin. It will not move with page layout. The only way I can get it to move up to 1 inch margin is to put the top margin measurement to a negative number. It works, but it's confusing, especially since others will work on the document. Is this fixable somehow? Thanks! -- Colleen |
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Trouble with Word doc. originally done in Word Perfect
Did you look for empty paragraphs?
-- 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. "Colleen" wrote in message ... Thanks Suzanne. I hope I have put my reply in the correct place. I have checked, there are no page breaks that I can see. Any other thoughts? Thanks, Colleen. Colleen E Wrote: Hi. I am trying to reformat a document that was converted from Word Perfect to Word (I am not sure which version it was originally converted to, but I am using 2003). Most of the pages are OK, but there is the odd one that has the title about 1.5-2 inches from the top margin. It will not move with page layout. The only way I can get it to move up to 1 inch margin is to put the top margin measurement to a negative number. It works, but it's confusing, especially since others will work on the document. Is this fixable somehow? Thanks! -- Colleen |
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Trouble with Word doc. originally done in Word Perfect
In Word 2002 and 2003, if a document has ever contained a header, there will
always be an empty header paragraph. There is no way to get rid of it other than to create a new document (with no header) and paste the text into it. You can reduce the header margin to 0", however. -- 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. "Colleen" wrote in message ... I went in and looked for empty paragraphs. There is a paragraph marker in the header that won't delete. Is that maybe the problem? I did for interest's sake go into the header and reduce the margin by .5 inch (it was 1 inch)- and the title did move up. Is it normal for a header to have a paragraph marker but no text? Suzanne S. Barnhill Wrote: Did you look for empty paragraphs? -- 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. "Colleen" wrote in message ... Thanks Suzanne. I hope I have put my reply in the correct place. I have checked, there are no page breaks that I can see. Any other thoughts? Thanks, Colleen. Colleen E Wrote: Hi. I am trying to reformat a document that was converted from Word Perfect to Word (I am not sure which version it was originally converted to, but I am using 2003). Most of the pages are OK, but there is the odd one that has the title about 1.5-2 inches from the top margin. It will not move with page layout. The only way I can get it to move up to 1 inch margin is to put the top margin measurement to a negative number. It works, but it's confusing, especially since others will work on the document. Is this fixable somehow? Thanks! -- Colleen -- Colleen |
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Trouble with Word doc. originally done in Word Perfect
Thanks Suzanne. That did the trick! I would have never guessed a paragraph marker in a header could cause such grief! Colleen. Suzanne S. Barnhill Wrote: In Word 2002 and 2003, if a document has ever contained a header, there will always be an empty header paragraph. There is no way to get rid of it other than to create a new document (with no header) and paste the text into it. You can reduce the header margin to 0", however. -- 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. "Colleen" wrote in message ... I went in and looked for empty paragraphs. There is a paragraph marker in the header that won't delete. Is that maybe the problem? I did for interest's sake go into the header and reduce the margin by .5 inch (it was 1 inch)- and the title did move up. Is it normal for a header to have a paragraph marker but no text? Suzanne S. Barnhill Wrote: Did you look for empty paragraphs? -- 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. "Colleen" wrote in message ... Thanks Suzanne. I hope I have put my reply in the correct place. I have checked, there are no page breaks that I can see. Any other thoughts? Thanks, Colleen. Colleen E Wrote: Hi. I am trying to reformat a document that was converted from Word Perfect to Word (I am not sure which version it was originally converted to, but I am using 2003). Most of the pages are OK, but there is the odd one that has the title about 1.5-2 inches from the top margin. It will not move with page layout. The only way I can get it to move up to 1 inch margin is to put the top margin measurement to a negative number. It works, but it's confusing, especially since others will work on the document. Is this fixable somehow? Thanks! -- Colleen -- Colleen -- Colleen |
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