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Old 12-08-2012, 05:32 PM
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Default Word 2010 will not let me change alignment on specific paragraph

Hi,



I copied a document into my new Word 2010 program on a blank page, and when I tried to change alignment for some of the paragraphs, for instance selecting one paragraph to center, it changed the whole document to that alignment which is not what I want at all. This never happened on my Word 03. Can someone please tell me how to fix this?

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GD
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Hi GD,

That suggests the 'update automatically' attribute has been set for whatever Style(s) you're using for the affected content. See: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...eformatted.htm
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Default Thanks Paul: More detail on the problem

Thanks Paul:

I tried what you suggested and followed the instructions on the link you provided. It did not work, but I was thinking about how I got to the place where the text acted like it did, and thought it might help you to solve it if I told you. What I do sometimes with documents I want to put on a website is put them in a body of a gmail email and then click plain formatting. That takes all the junk out and just leaves plain text. Then I would click rich formatting, format the document a little bit in that gmail context, and then copy and paste it to a Word 2003 document. I would save the document, send it to myself, and then just view the html from google docs, right click and choose "page source" and I would have the html for the website. It still works rather well, I must say.

But this time in the process, when I converted the text to plain in gmail, and then "rich formatted" it, and took it over to Word 2010, it started aligning the whole document when I tried to align certain sections, and that is where the problem still lies right now.

What I did to overcome this problem, not to solve it just to get around it, was to copy the body of text in the gmail while it was in "plain text" format, and then formatted it in word with none of those problems. This leads me to believe there is either something wrong with bringing "rich format" text from gmail to Word, or, on the other hand, there could be something wrong with Word 2010, since I never had this problem using Word 2003. Oddly enough, I still use Word 2003 on one of my computers and wouldn't you know, the same problem happened with the rich text transfer from gmail to Word. This leads me to believe something is different with the rich text feature in gmail, like something that locks the whole block of text into one unit, but as to why this would happen, I have no idea.

Judging from what I have read on similar threads, this will be a tough nut to crack. It will likely take a Word "Jedi" to see through this tangle and solve it in Word alone.

Thanks for your help Paul.
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Hi GD,

Without seeing a document with some of the problem content, it's difficult to offer further advice. Can you attach a document to a post with some representative data (delete anything sensitive)? You do this via the paperclip symbol on the 'Go Advanced' tab.
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Default Hi Paul, here is the requested document

Hi Paul:

I attached a document that went through the same process I described and will not allow me to align one portion, but any alignment change changes the whole document. See above comment on how it was created via gmail's rich/plain text switch over.

Let me know if you are able to crack this case?

Sorry about the delay and thanks for your time.

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Hi Craig,

With your attachment, all of the text is a single paragraph, with manual line breaks used to separate what appear to be separate paragraphs, instead of paragraph breaks. And, because it's all one paragraph, whatever alignment you apply to one part applies to the whole.

If you click on the ¶ symbol on the Ribbon's Home tab to expose the formatting marks, you'll see a bunch of right/down arrow symbols. These are manual line breaks. A paragraph break looks like ¶.

You can use the following wildcard Find/Replace to replace the manual line breaks (and non-breaking spaces included with some of them) with pairs of proper paragraph breaks:
Find = [^0160^l]{2,}
Replace = ^p^p
To access the wildcards option, click on 'More' on the Find/Replace dialogue.
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Old 12-19-2012, 09:23 PM
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Thanks Paul:

Excellent answer, I see what you mean, I use the find/replace with html, and it makes perfect sense to use it here too.

I hope people having the same problem see this thread, it is very helpful.

It is interesting to note that gmail makes paragraphed rich text into one paragraph on Word. Perhaps transferring it straight from plain text is the best way to go.

Thanks again and merry Christmas!
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