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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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

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.
All best,
GD