B
bobaran98
I get my file just the way I like it, but when I reopen later--on the same
machine--numerous minor and difficult-to-find changes in spacing have
occurred.
I'm running Word 2002 in WinXP Pro.
The file is a doctoral dissertation. All told, it's about 265 pages and
includes multiple sections (chapters, appendices, etc.). Interspersed
throughout are about 80 images. As this is an an academic work, there are
extremely strict rules about how everything must be spaced (exactly 4 lines
between image and text, no more than 2" whitespace anywhere, etc.). The
final submission of the dissertation must be in PDF format.
I'm creating the electronic version of this dissertation for a
computer-illiterate client who is geographically distant. Therefore, every
time I believe I've got it exactly the way it should be, I write it to PDF
and email it to her. Then, she'll find a few minor things that need to be
fixed. When I reopen the Word file to make the fixes, the spacing is
different than when I last saved it--and since spacing must be exact, this is
a very serious issue.
It appears in many cases to be nothing more than a change in character
spacing--except that the numbers in the character spacing dialog box haven't
changed. I have now clocked 10+ hours going in circles; every time I reopen
the document, something else has changed. In other words, everytime I put
out one fire, another pops up out of nowhere. And I cannot realistically
find every problem in a 265 page document in one sitting.
It seems clear that nothing within the file itself is changing. This is a
change that is occurring when I reopen the file--something very similar to
how Word will subtly reformat a document when the printer driver is changed
or the file is opened on a different machine . . . except that neither of
these is the case. I know that it can't be the original file changing since
I can go back to an old backup that hasn't been touched in a week, and it
suddenly has the same incorrect formatting in a particular paragraph that has
only today appeared in a file I saved and closed yesterday!
This is driving me absolutely batty. I consider myself very Word-savvy, yet
I cannot for the life of me figure out this issue. Any help you can provide
would be fantastic. Also, I found this is very difficult to explain, so if
you're not quite following what I'm saying, please let me know and I'll try
to rephrase.
THANKS!
machine--numerous minor and difficult-to-find changes in spacing have
occurred.
I'm running Word 2002 in WinXP Pro.
The file is a doctoral dissertation. All told, it's about 265 pages and
includes multiple sections (chapters, appendices, etc.). Interspersed
throughout are about 80 images. As this is an an academic work, there are
extremely strict rules about how everything must be spaced (exactly 4 lines
between image and text, no more than 2" whitespace anywhere, etc.). The
final submission of the dissertation must be in PDF format.
I'm creating the electronic version of this dissertation for a
computer-illiterate client who is geographically distant. Therefore, every
time I believe I've got it exactly the way it should be, I write it to PDF
and email it to her. Then, she'll find a few minor things that need to be
fixed. When I reopen the Word file to make the fixes, the spacing is
different than when I last saved it--and since spacing must be exact, this is
a very serious issue.
It appears in many cases to be nothing more than a change in character
spacing--except that the numbers in the character spacing dialog box haven't
changed. I have now clocked 10+ hours going in circles; every time I reopen
the document, something else has changed. In other words, everytime I put
out one fire, another pops up out of nowhere. And I cannot realistically
find every problem in a 265 page document in one sitting.
It seems clear that nothing within the file itself is changing. This is a
change that is occurring when I reopen the file--something very similar to
how Word will subtly reformat a document when the printer driver is changed
or the file is opened on a different machine . . . except that neither of
these is the case. I know that it can't be the original file changing since
I can go back to an old backup that hasn't been touched in a week, and it
suddenly has the same incorrect formatting in a particular paragraph that has
only today appeared in a file I saved and closed yesterday!
This is driving me absolutely batty. I consider myself very Word-savvy, yet
I cannot for the life of me figure out this issue. Any help you can provide
would be fantastic. Also, I found this is very difficult to explain, so if
you're not quite following what I'm saying, please let me know and I'll try
to rephrase.
THANKS!