I'm editing someone else's bibliography in Word 2010.



The author made hanging indents by putting paragraph marks after each line and putting tabs at the start of a new line.

I needed to reformat this to make each citation a proper paragraph, each with a hanging indent.

I found each instance of a paragraph mark followed by a tab and deleted them both (mark and tab).

However, I still can't get the individual lines of each citation to merge into a proper paragraph. (Thus the citations do not have hanging indents.)

If I click on a citation twice, only part of it (usually only one line) is selected.

If I select the whole citation and try to adjust the margins with the ruler, the citation still behaves as if it were two or more paragraphs.

When I click on "show paragraph marks," the graphs look OK. I do not see any stray paragraph marks, tabs, or strange returns.

How do I merge these stubborn lines into a single graph? Thanks...

Can you post a sample that demonstrates the problem?

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I saved a copy of the Word document and deleted all but a few pages to serve as a sample. I then turned off track changes, accepted all changes, and also inspected the document and removed custom XML data and watermarks and identifying information.

The interesting thing is that now the paragraphs appear to be completely formattable, just as I needed them to be. My next step is to go through this process again, see which step fixed the problem, and determine whether I can apply that step to the original whole document (for instance, accepting all changes is not a workable solution - my client needs me to track changes). I'll do this and report back.