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| Thread ID: 28396 | 2002-12-18 04:15:00 | MS Word97 - layout - mind of it's own | Woof (2402) | Press F1 |
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| 107248 | 2002-12-18 04:15:00 | I'm being driven 'spare' by the "know-it-all" attitude of Micro$oft Word 97 All I'm trying to do is 'throw in' a few quick lines on a new document to quickly record some instruction notes on a task or two that I shall be doing over the holiday period when one of our staff members is on holiday overseas BUT Word seems to want to copy the previous line's layout when I have used the spacebar to indent that line and put a - followed by a space AND it seems to invent its own slightly longer - in the process but NOT use that on succeeding lines An then when I finish that line and <enter> to move down to a fresh new line it decides that no I don't want a new line starting from the far left of the page and that I should instead be indenting again etc etc etc No doubt I'm not the only one to experience this frustration - what's the easy way around this (besides WordPad or some NON Micro$oft product , PLEEEAASE |
Woof (2402) | ||
| 107249 | 2002-12-18 04:29:00 | Tools|Autocorrect Options Change your preferences in "Auto Format as you Type" (Hyphens with dash) etc. Also Tools|Options Under Edit, remove the tick from "Use Smart Paragraph selection" The above is from Word XP, but I think it was similar under 97 |
godfather (25) | ||
| 107250 | 2002-12-18 04:29:00 | I use a "Made in New Zealand" product for "a few quick lines". It's a Bic :D. Then I lose the piece of paper. ;-) I don't need expensive softawre to do things like that. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 107251 | 2002-12-18 22:32:00 | Thanks godfather - perfect advice, thanks - worked a treat "Use Smart Paragraph Selection" was not available for me in Word 97 but under Tools/Options, Edit I did UNcheck " Tabs and backspace set left indent" and that may also be of benefit. Compliments of the Season |
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