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Advanced formatting issues
Hi
I am writing a document, (100 pages so far,) with many contributors and based on a really poorly designed template which is a bit of a Frankenstein’s monster- a cut and paste job from everyone and everywhere. There are lots of hidden format issues and style issues. I am having major issues getting headings to work properly, bullets to look the same, numbered outlines to work properly....I am sure we have all dealt with this. I will not start about the margins. I am at wit's end with it feel like stripping all formats in metapad and then starting from scratch. My only constraint is that the outline numbers have to match, (there are questions and answers.) Before I start from scratch, I thought I’d see if anyone could offer words of wisdom. |
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I believe that will be good to copy your entire .doc and paste it into a new email on outlook as plain text.
1- go to your word doc 2-highlight everything 3-Ctrl+C 4-Open a new email 5-Go to Options 6-Choose "Plain Text" 7-Ctrl+V then you should have you doc as plan text. |
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Formatting
From my years of experience handling such monsters, I say without reservation that you'll lose far more time in exasperation than you will spend transferring to a clean template doc.
If you have a clean template, with only the styles you need, create a fresh doc from that. Otherwise, create the template you want, name it appropriately, store it where you wish (desktop, Templates folder, or personal folder) and create a fresh, blank doc from it. This gives you a "back-up" in case something goes wrong later, as you can re-import the styles from the template if they get messed up. With the clean shell and monster doc side by side on your desktop, copy and paste special/unformatted text from the old to the new, or, as others suggested, copy the old into plain text, then copy and paste that into the new doc, and apply your styles as appropriate, referring to the old doc as you go for numbering, etc. If you don't want the two side by side, print out the old and set it up in a copy stand next to your monitor. If you're fortunate, Word's auto-numbering gremlins will not make your life impossible. Happy formatting! |
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