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Word 2003: misbehaving formatting from OCR
Using Microsoft Office Document Scanning, I OCRd a letter and sent it on to
Word. For some reason the document thought it was HTML, but ok, I saved it as ..doc and proceeded. The usual glitches from OCR were easy to cope with. But Numbering and Bulleting would not cooperate. When I highlighted a paragraph and invoked numbering from the toolbar the entire document was numbered. Ctrl-Z-ing back from there found the paragraph numbered correctly. But at the next instance the same thing happened. Finally threw up my hands and gave up. Later it occurred to me to copy the whole thing to Windows Clipboard and drop it in a new document, but I haven't tried it yet. I could not find a setting that controls whether formatting applies to a selection or to the whole document. Is there one? Can I impose my normal template on a document? Thanks, rs |
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See http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Format...eformatted.htm.
For outline numbering see: How to create numbered headings or outline numbering in your Word document http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/numb...Numbering.html. (For bullets see http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/bull...olbullets.html, the subject is related.) Essentially, for anything at all complex or that will be heavily edited, do _not_ use numbering or bullets from the toolbar! -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "TCEBob" tcebobatgwidotnet wrote in message ... Using Microsoft Office Document Scanning, I OCRd a letter and sent it on to Word. For some reason the document thought it was HTML, but ok, I saved it as .doc and proceeded. The usual glitches from OCR were easy to cope with. But Numbering and Bulleting would not cooperate. When I highlighted a paragraph and invoked numbering from the toolbar the entire document was numbered. Ctrl-Z-ing back from there found the paragraph numbered correctly. But at the next instance the same thing happened. Finally threw up my hands and gave up. Later it occurred to me to copy the whole thing to Windows Clipboard and drop it in a new document, but I haven't tried it yet. I could not find a setting that controls whether formatting applies to a selection or to the whole document. Is there one? Can I impose my normal template on a document? Thanks, rs |
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Thank you.
rs "Charles Kenyon" wrote in message ... See http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Format...eformatted.htm. For outline numbering see: How to create numbered headings or outline numbering in your Word document http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/numb...Numbering.html. (For bullets see http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/bull...olbullets.html, the subject is related.) Essentially, for anything at all complex or that will be heavily edited, do _not_ use numbering or bullets from the toolbar! -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "TCEBob" tcebobatgwidotnet wrote in message ... Using Microsoft Office Document Scanning, I OCRd a letter and sent it on to Word. For some reason the document thought it was HTML, but ok, I saved it as .doc and proceeded. The usual glitches from OCR were easy to cope with. But Numbering and Bulleting would not cooperate. When I highlighted a paragraph and invoked numbering from the toolbar the entire document was numbered. Ctrl-Z-ing back from there found the paragraph numbered correctly. But at the next instance the same thing happened. Finally threw up my hands and gave up. Later it occurred to me to copy the whole thing to Windows Clipboard and drop it in a new document, but I haven't tried it yet. I could not find a setting that controls whether formatting applies to a selection or to the whole document. Is there one? Can I impose my normal template on a document? Thanks, rs |
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Charles,
Those are great references! I will set aside time later to go through in detail. I did not know there was a .numbering group, so will check it there, too. rs "Charles Kenyon" wrote in message ... See http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Format...eformatted.htm. For outline numbering see: How to create numbered headings or outline numbering in your Word document http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/numb...Numbering.html. (For bullets see http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/bull...olbullets.html, the subject is related.) Essentially, for anything at all complex or that will be heavily edited, do _not_ use numbering or bullets from the toolbar! -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "TCEBob" tcebobatgwidotnet wrote in message ... Using Microsoft Office Document Scanning, I OCRd a letter and sent it on to Word. For some reason the document thought it was HTML, but ok, I saved it as .doc and proceeded. The usual glitches from OCR were easy to cope with. But Numbering and Bulleting would not cooperate. When I highlighted a paragraph and invoked numbering from the toolbar the entire document was numbered. Ctrl-Z-ing back from there found the paragraph numbered correctly. But at the next instance the same thing happened. Finally threw up my hands and gave up. Later it occurred to me to copy the whole thing to Windows Clipboard and drop it in a new document, but I haven't tried it yet. I could not find a setting that controls whether formatting applies to a selection or to the whole document. Is there one? Can I impose my normal template on a document? Thanks, rs |
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