I've been using Word for about thirty years, so this is a kind of advanced problem that I have today.

I have a booklength document which I created from an ebook I'm working on. I loaded my ebook's underlying large HTML file into Word, then saved as DOC to get a document. (I'm not using my original text file, as it changed a lot during the HTML editing).

The text looks fine, and my CSS styles seem to have come over intact.

But one thing is confusing. In my HTML I had a number of paragraphs that were enclosed in a <blockquote> </blockquote> tag so as to indent them, and these paragraphs were formatted in a special "epubtext_blockquote" style so as to control their justification and font size.

In my HTML-derived DOC file, the formerly blockquoted-material is indented like I want...BUT if I look in my DOC's styles, the epubtext_blockquote style has the paragraph left and right indents set to 0.

So if I now apply the epubtext_blockquote to a paragraph in my DOC, it has really no effect, at least not in terms of indents.

My former blockquotes also are showing up with extra space at the top and the bottom of the block, just as if my file were HTML.

But I can't figure out where the formatting commands for this are! They're not in the styles, and they're not in the individual paragraph formats---nor in any margin formats that I can see, although I'm not totally sure about this last claim.

Any ideas?