Re: Unusual paragraph marks--cursor appears AFTER them, etc.
- From: "CyberTaz" <typegeneraltaz1ATcomcastdotnet>
- Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 17:04:37 -0400
You'll probably get more direct response in the PC Word group, although the
versions are not that different in most respects - its just that the PC
group gets a lot more traffic :)
In the meantime here a few thoughts & questions:
I've never seen the 'ghost' para marks as you describe in more than 15 yrs.
on both platforms, other than in a corrupted doc. Where did the 'batch' of
files come from - were they created in Word (what version) or some other
program? If another program, what, and how were they converted to Word docs?
Anything else you can share about the origin of the files. What version of
Word are *you* using?
It sounds like you're working in Print Layout View - in which case you may
not be able to see them -but I believe you're dealing with Continuous
Section Breaks. Turn on the Show/Hide & switch to Normal View... see if
double dotted lines labeled as Section Break (Continuous ) shows up at the
problem locations. That would explain why you can place the insertion point
to the right of the pilcrow & there looks like a space with Show/Hide turned
off.
If so, you can move the pointer to the left edge of the break & click when
the pointer looks like a white arrow leaning to the right, then press
Backspace or Delete to remove the break. That alone may be helpful in
reformatting the doc, but there is probably more to it involving the Styles
& settings used in the docs.
More info may also be asked for, like is it just the next para that gets
reformatted, all paras forward of that para, several successive paras, etc.
If all else fails you can use the Recover Text from Any File feature in the
File Type list of the Open dialog & then reformat as you please with the
styles you want to use.
--
Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac
"colmcse2001" <colmcse2001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:5475ACFB-E395-44C1-873F-62A1D4C0F0CE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi, and thanks.
Oops--I just noticed that though I chose "Word" as the forum in which to
post, this appears to be Mac Word--I'm on PC. Does that make a difference?
At any rate, I tried copying all but the last para mark and pasting into a
black doc, but still have the odd paragraph marks--it's so strange that
the
cursor can appear AFTER one of them! Also, it's happened in 16 files so
far,
so corruption seems unlikely. So strange...
"Beth Rosengard" wrote:
Sounds like a corrupt document. Try copying all but the very last
paragraph
mark in the document and pasting into a blank new document. Any help?
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Beth Rosengard
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On 7/25/06 8:56 AM, in article
11813E04-57EF-42C7-8DF3-E7AB867A0586@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, "colmcse2001"
<colmcse2001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I am an expert Word user, but have received a batch of files that
exhibit
strange behavior--if I Show the nonprinting characters, I see spaces
and
paragraph marks; if, however, I start applying styles, I find that the
style
carries from one line to another (I don't want it on the second line, I
want
a different style, but it's clearly seeing the style of the line
before). I
was puzzled because there appears to be a paragraph mark between these
lines,
so I couldn't understand what was happening. I then realized that I
could
actually click the cursor into position AFTER the paragraph mark--i.e.,
if I
Hide the nonprinting characters, the cursor looks like it's appearing
after
an extra space character.
I've tried a few things such as doing a global Replace of all instances
of
^p, but I actually get a message that there are no ^p found. Let me
emphasize
that when I do "Show," I'm not seeing simple line breaks--i.e., the
L-shaped
arrow character...I am getting the pilcrow character. I've also tried
copying
and pasting the character into the Replace dialog so that I could
Replace
with ^p, but the Replace dialog sees it as a space, too. As a result,
I'm
having to go through and replace each of these apparent paragraph marks
with
a real hard return in Word before I can apply styles.
Has anyone heard of this before?
.
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