Word-Wrap Problem

[Vince Marshall]

I have been having a strange problem with the word-wrap function in
Word. When I go to the beginning of a line within a paragraph and
press the spacebar, the spaces do not appear on that line. Instead,
the spaces are added to the end of the previous line (This only
happens with spaces and not with text). If I go to the end of a line
and hit the space bar, the spaces are added to the end of that line
without wrapping and continue well beyond the page margins (again,
text does not do this). The problem is not specific to one document,
and I opened a document from the machine that orginally had the
problem on another computer, and now all documents on the second
machine have the same word-wrap problem. Any suggestions would be
appreciated.

 

[John McGhie [MVP]]

Hi Vince:

That will be a problem with the Alignment or right Indent settings for the
paragraph. Since it is more than one paragraph, it is a style setting:
probably Normal style.

To fix it, use Format>Style to correct the style properties. You should
click "Add to template" when you make this change to correct future
documents you create.

To correct documents already created, you will need to make the change in
each one.

Cheers


This responds to article <[email protected]>,

I have been having a strange problem with the word-wrap function in
Word. When I go to the beginning of a line within a paragraph and
press the spacebar, the spaces do not appear on that line. Instead,
the spaces are added to the end of the previous line (This only
happens with spaces and not with text). If I go to the end of a line
and hit the space bar, the spaces are added to the end of that line
without wrapping and continue well beyond the page margins (again,
text does not do this). The problem is not specific to one document,
and I opened a document from the machine that orginally had the
problem on another computer, and now all documents on the second
machine have the same word-wrap problem. Any suggestions would be
appreciated.

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