Hello,

After finishing a quite long document. I had some trouble with my ruler.
The indent position and ruler position is way of for some strange reason.
One paragraph above everything is normal but at some positions it just act strange. I've included a picture to illustrate the problem.
There are no section ends used where the problem occurs so that can't be the problem....



Just have no idea were to start ...

Any help would be much appreciated

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My first guess would be that this is a style problem. If you have applied Word styles in your document, this could have been an inadvertent error. If you are not familiar with styles and don't use them, be aware that they exist and affect your document anyway, and, if you copied and pasted-in text from another document, you may have imported one without realizing it.

With your cursor in a paragraph that exhibits this issue, open the Styles pane by clicking on the tiny gray arrow at bottom right of the Styles section of your Ribbon's Home tab, and scroll to find the Style with a box around it, indicating that this is the paragraph style in use. If it is not the style called Normal, right-click on it and select Modify, then Format/Tabs. Clear the offending tab stops and set any you would prefer. This should
clear other paragraphs similarly affected.

If the paragraph is Normal style, it's likely that most of your paragraphs are also Normal style, no matter what they look like. you can perform the same action as above, resetting the style's characteristics, but it's possible that this will affect headings or other parts of your document.

One other thing you might do is option Word options, Advanced tab, and clear the check box in the first section that reads "Keep track of formatting."

I would encourage you to look up Styles in Word, to get a better understanding of how they work.

I hope this solves your problem.

Best,
Ulodesk

Thanks for the info and effort to look at the problem Ulodesk.
But i'm actually quite familiar with word styles.
So the style for both paragraphs is exactly the same so this cannot be the reason for word to suddenly adapt the indents and values of the ruler.
I checked page layout, style (paragraph options), but all are quite normal
(indent at 0 cm and tab only at 0.35 cm).

So it seems not that of a simple problem

Solved

just made it easy to myself and copied the whole document in another file.
I guess something got disturbed in the template because several authors worked on the text (in Europe, US and Asia) ...

Glad you were able to fix it. Interesting problem indeed.