Macintosh Word X Indentation Issue

[Robert L]

I am using Microsoft Office Mac X purchased December 24, 2003.

Problem: I have a 250 page document, suddently the first line of each page
is indenting and I am having to go to the individual pages to drop the
opening line down to eliminate the indent.

The only explanation I can think of -- I had originally number the pages,
then using the header/footer facility in View Mode, I deleted the page
numbers, creating this formatting inconsistency, which is extremely
disabling. I tried copying the full document onto another blank document
but the formatting carried over.

Please help me. Thank you so very much.
Robert

 

[Dayo Mitchell]

Do you see the same behavior when you print a couple of pages? I think this
is a glitch, rather than that your formatting actually changed. The header
should not carry over onto the next page, though you could try going back
into View | Headers/Footers and deleting any empty lines (aka extraneous
paragraph marks). Also try switching into Normal View and back to force Word
to redraw the screen.

OR Maybe the document is corrupt?

The first way to check for a corrupt document is to
copy the entire thing, *excluding* the last paragraph mark, into a new
document. That last paragraph mark holds a lot of information which can get
corrupted, and copying the text into a document with a fresh one keeps your
formatting, but can fix some glitches.

A paragraph mark is a gray ¶. Click on ¶ on the standard toolbar to show
nonprinting characters, including paragraph marks.

See this link for further info:

http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm

If that doesn't help, try this:

See here to make sure you are fully updated:
http://www.mcgimpsey.com/macoffice/office/vxversions.html

Then check for general troubleshooting tips for Word:
http://www.mcgimpsey.com/macoffice/word/troubleshooting.html

DM