AutoText Cursor Wrapping

[Fester Bestertester]

Word 2K3 sp2, XP sp2

I've created dozens of AutoText entries for our office. In the vast
majority of cases, the cursor simply jumps to the end of the text entry
when the user hits the Enter key (which is what we expect to happen).

But there are certain unexplained cases where the cursor wraps down to
the next line, and it will do this regardless of whether the user hits
the Enter key or the Tab key. This behavior happens even though the
cursor starts at the beginning of a line and the text itself is not
enough to cause the cursor to wrap.

I've tried deleting the AutoText entry and re-creating it, carefully
selecting the text and only the text, and the behavior still exhibits
itself.

Suggestions?

 

[Stefan Blom]

Press Ctrl+Shift+8 to display nonprinting marks. Make sure that no paragraph
mark (¶) is included in selection from which you are creating the AutoText
entry.

For more on AutoText, see
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/customization/AutoText.htm.

 

[Fester Bestertester]

Yeah, I figured it was something like that. And it's really klunky,
because if you use the mouse to select the text, Word will automatically
assume you want the paragraph mark and grab that too. You have to use
Shift + Left Arrow to back the selection away.