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I can live without fixing these problems, but why, when cutting and
pasting from one word document to another, does the font sometimes change? Does all text have an apparent font and another underlying font? Why does the "-" symbol lengthen (I believe when I press "enter" to go to the next line, at least) sometimes? It's about twice as long. After my file is large and I want all the "-" symbols to be the same size, I have to cut and paste the longer "-" symbol into the "find and replace" tool and it sometimes makes hundreds of replacements. And why, when I press "enter" to go to the next line, does the left margin on the line on which I press "enter" move to the right, so that I have to go back and delete text to get the margin back to what it was? I'm using version 9.0.2720 |
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Hi Tom,
Answers in-line below... On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 16:22:00 GMT, Tom Robertson wrote: I can live without fixing these problems, but why, when cutting and pasting from one word document to another, does the font sometimes change? Does all text have an apparent font and another underlying font? No, there is no "apparent" vs. "underlying" font. You're having trouble with conflicting style definitions in the two documents. See http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/styl...xtChanges.html for explanation. Why does the "-" symbol lengthen (I believe when I press "enter" to go to the next line, at least) sometimes? It's about twice as long. After my file is large and I want all the "-" symbols to be the same size, I have to cut and paste the longer "-" symbol into the "find and replace" tool and it sometimes makes hundreds of replacements. You're probably getting zapped by Word's AutoFormat As You Type (sometimes known by users as "Auto Screw Up"). See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Format...AutoFormat.htm for this and other annoyances you can turn off. The long dash may be an "en dash" (character 0150) or an "em dash" (character 0151); see http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Genera...tSpecChars.htm. And why, when I press "enter" to go to the next line, does the left margin on the line on which I press "enter" move to the right, so that I have to go back and delete text to get the margin back to what it was? That one doesn't sound familiar, and it isn't normal behavior. When you go back to the line with the indent, does it show a different style name in the toolbar than it had before you hit Enter? Are there actual characters at the start of the line, or is it a paragraph indent? -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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Tom,
Immediately after you paste the test, and only immediately after you paste the text, a little clipboard appears at the end. If you click that, you may choose "match destination formatting". I feel your pain, and wish we could set the default. As for the changing of the left margin after "enter", it sounds like you are "auto-setting indent" for a paragraph style. Do you get a little underline and a lightening bolt when you hover over the change? Click that, and it will give you an option to "stop automatically creating indents". "Jay Freedman" wrote: Hi Tom, Answers in-line below... On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 16:22:00 GMT, Tom Robertson wrote: I can live without fixing these problems, but why, when cutting and pasting from one word document to another, does the font sometimes change? Does all text have an apparent font and another underlying font? No, there is no "apparent" vs. "underlying" font. You're having trouble with conflicting style definitions in the two documents. See http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/styl...xtChanges.html for explanation. Why does the "-" symbol lengthen (I believe when I press "enter" to go to the next line, at least) sometimes? It's about twice as long. After my file is large and I want all the "-" symbols to be the same size, I have to cut and paste the longer "-" symbol into the "find and replace" tool and it sometimes makes hundreds of replacements. You're probably getting zapped by Word's AutoFormat As You Type (sometimes known by users as "Auto Screw Up"). See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Format...AutoFormat.htm for this and other annoyances you can turn off. The long dash may be an "en dash" (character 0150) or an "em dash" (character 0151); see http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Genera...tSpecChars.htm. And why, when I press "enter" to go to the next line, does the left margin on the line on which I press "enter" move to the right, so that I have to go back and delete text to get the margin back to what it was? That one doesn't sound familiar, and it isn't normal behavior. When you go back to the line with the indent, does it show a different style name in the toolbar than it had before you hit Enter? Are there actual characters at the start of the line, or is it a paragraph indent? -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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