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Subject:RE: MS Word screws up yet ANOTHER project From:"Stephen Arrants" <steve -at- mbfbioscience -dot- com> To:<poshedly -at- bellsouth -dot- net>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Fri, 7 Dec 2007 10:07:13 -0500
Are you using a dedicated template (something other than NORMAL.DOT)?
Do you have defined styles for your document, or are you formatting on the fly?
What version of WORD?
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Steve Arrants steve -at- mbfbioscience -dot- com
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> MS Word, the program that won't be fixed and won't go away, just undid
> weeks of work in an instant -- without me even touching a key. It
> simply changed the font and spacing in all of the dozens of tables in
> the 164-page manual I'm currently working on.
> Yep, whereas eveything in all of the tables was set to Arial 10 pt with
> preset spacings in place, in the blink of an eye -- and with no action
> by me -- I saw it magically change to Times Roman and goofed-up
> spacings.
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