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| Thread ID: 113859 | 2010-11-07 04:42:00 | Attention MSWord gurus - strange formatting problem | GorCh (13021) | Press F1 |
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| 1150889 | 2010-11-07 04:42:00 | Hi there, Am in the process of writing up the final report for a Uni project, using MS Word. It contains figures, tables, captions and in line references to those, in order to keep everything synced. So I get the document nicely lined up, everything in its place, and I go to print. Suddenly, two of the in-line references decide to give themselves about 4 carriage returns, messing up the formatting through that section. Print preview, normal print and PDF publish all give the same result. Tried it on two PC's. Anyone got any ideas how I can solve this dilemma? Cheers, GorCh |
GorCh (13021) | ||
| 1150890 | 2010-11-07 04:58:00 | What version of Word ? | wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1150891 | 2010-11-07 06:58:00 | It might come down to your margins being set a tad too wide in that particular section. Safest strategy may be to insert a Section Break before and after the troublesome section. The section breaks are to protect the rest of the document from being affected by what you'll do next. Now position your cursor within the troublesome area, and select Print Setup. Narrow your margins a mm or two, and select for the change to apply to the Current Section only. It may then show exactly the same formatting issue you've been struggling with, but once you adjust the contents of that section within these new borders it should then print OK.... if my hunch is on the mark. |
Paul.Cov (425) | ||
| 1150892 | 2010-11-07 19:42:00 | Sorry, should have specified, using Word 2007. Attempted to add section breaks above and below, and narrowed margins from 2.54 to 2.3 cm. Turned on paragraph marks, and the only change was that after I looked at Print Preview, a third section break was inserted inserted after the second, with the reference that moved sitting between them. |
GorCh (13021) | ||
| 1150893 | 2010-11-07 19:58:00 | Copy and Paste the whole document into a new .doc/x, then try again, if no go paste special as unformated text, then reformat it again. You should be working off a copy anyway and not continuously modifying the original document. |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1150894 | 2010-11-07 22:01:00 | It may be that your doc is corrupted. First, close Word, find and delete Normal.dotx. It will be recreated when you next open Word. Open the .doc with the problem and paste into a new document. |
Snorkbox (15764) | ||
| 1150895 | 2010-11-08 00:38:00 | Well worked around the problem. For the first instance, cutting and re-pasting the relevant paragraph made it work, whereas in the second place I ended up moving all the captions into textboxes. Have a sneaking suspicion it was to do with the way I forced some of the textboxes spacing - the images were layered 'In front of text' with manually entered carriage returns to get the caption spacing correct. Thanks for the suggestions anyway. Cheers, GorCh |
GorCh (13021) | ||
| 1150896 | 2010-11-08 07:38:00 | Well, I didn't help by saying to narrow your margins, when I meant to increase the margins - in case there was stuff impinging on the 'unprintable area'. Sorry. Glad you got it sorted. |
Paul.Cov (425) | ||
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