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Auto stuff gone crazy
I use Word 2002, I use the autotext feature, I use a program called
ShortHand, and I cut and paste from other documents, all day long. I have turned off all the Autoformat options, and Autoformat As You Type options. I have checked the style and formatting in all the documents that I cut and paste from. I created my own autotext and ShortHand entries. I have never added a "hanging indent" to anything in my life, and none of my tools contain any "hanging indents". About half the time when I cut and past, or insert from AutoText or ShortHand, the paragraphs will automatically obtain a "hanging indent" upon insertion. I have to select everything added and turn off the "hanging indent". ALL DAY LONG. I have searched high and low, and can't figure out what is causing it, much less how to stop it. I wish there were a button that said NEVER APPLY A HANGING INDENT, but I haven't found it yet. Any idea why this is happening, and how to put a stop to it? I also ocasionally get bolded text where it wasn't bolded in the originating text, or on the page inserted to, or unbolded text when it was bold before. The same happens with underlines. I can see how this might accidently happen, since I do often use these options, although they shouldn't be happening like they do. But the hanging indent is a total mystery, since I don't ever use it. |
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See http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/styl...xtChanges.html.
Cheri wrote: I use Word 2002, I use the autotext feature, I use a program called ShortHand, and I cut and paste from other documents, all day long. I have turned off all the Autoformat options, and Autoformat As You Type options. I have checked the style and formatting in all the documents that I cut and paste from. I created my own autotext and ShortHand entries. I have never added a "hanging indent" to anything in my life, and none of my tools contain any "hanging indents". About half the time when I cut and past, or insert from AutoText or ShortHand, the paragraphs will automatically obtain a "hanging indent" upon insertion. I have to select everything added and turn off the "hanging indent". ALL DAY LONG. I have searched high and low, and can't figure out what is causing it, much less how to stop it. I wish there were a button that said NEVER APPLY A HANGING INDENT, but I haven't found it yet. Any idea why this is happening, and how to put a stop to it? I also ocasionally get bolded text where it wasn't bolded in the originating text, or on the page inserted to, or unbolded text when it was bold before. The same happens with underlines. I can see how this might accidently happen, since I do often use these options, although they shouldn't be happening like they do. But the hanging indent is a total mystery, since I don't ever use it. |
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But the thing is, both documents are in Normal style, Times New Roman 12pt
left alligned. So where the heck are the hanging indents coming from? And ShortHand is TOTALLY not another style. You put "Ctrl+B" in front of the word, and that causes it to be bold. "Ctrl+E" causes it to be center aligned, etc. So I REALLY don't get how I end up with a hanging indent in a paragraph that has "Ctrl+L" in front of it! It says in that linked document that copied text will retain any direct formatting, which is what "Ctrl+L" is, direct formatting. Hmmm, maybe I need to place "Ctrl+L" in front of each line... That still doesn't explain copying from Normal to Normal, and having everything go screwy. I DO NOT want to abandon all formatting. The documents have direct formatting that I need. It would double my production time to have to reformat separate lines after pasting. My documents vary, but usually have the title of the exam (Radiology transcription) bolded, centered and underlined. Then everything is left aligned in the body. Then bolded and all caps in the impression at the bottom. IS there any way to prevent hanging indent from EVER happening? Or is that just a pipe dream? This job is all about production speed. Anything that takes extra time is basically a cut in pay. Perhaps a macro? I have never used one... |
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Hi Cheri
can't think why its happening, but the keyboard shortcut for removing hanging indents is CTRL & SHIFT & T maybe this will speed up things. (You might like to try CTRL & A to select the whole document and then CTRL & SHIFT & T to remove any hanging indents - it should do all the document at once and hopefully not mess anything else up) Cheers JulieD "Cheri" wrote in message ... But the thing is, both documents are in Normal style, Times New Roman 12pt left alligned. So where the heck are the hanging indents coming from? And ShortHand is TOTALLY not another style. You put "Ctrl+B" in front of the word, and that causes it to be bold. "Ctrl+E" causes it to be center aligned, etc. So I REALLY don't get how I end up with a hanging indent in a paragraph that has "Ctrl+L" in front of it! It says in that linked document that copied text will retain any direct formatting, which is what "Ctrl+L" is, direct formatting. Hmmm, maybe I need to place "Ctrl+L" in front of each line... That still doesn't explain copying from Normal to Normal, and having everything go screwy. I DO NOT want to abandon all formatting. The documents have direct formatting that I need. It would double my production time to have to reformat separate lines after pasting. My documents vary, but usually have the title of the exam (Radiology transcription) bolded, centered and underlined. Then everything is left aligned in the body. Then bolded and all caps in the impression at the bottom. IS there any way to prevent hanging indent from EVER happening? Or is that just a pipe dream? This job is all about production speed. Anything that takes extra time is basically a cut in pay. Perhaps a macro? I have never used one... |
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The Ctrl+T seems to get rid of all formatting, not just the indent.
"JulieD" wrote in message ... Hi Cheri can't think why its happening, but the keyboard shortcut for removing hanging indents is CTRL & SHIFT & T maybe this will speed up things. (You might like to try CTRL & A to select the whole document and then CTRL & SHIFT & T to remove any hanging indents - it should do all the document at once and hopefully not mess anything else up) Cheers JulieD "Cheri" wrote in message ... But the thing is, both documents are in Normal style, Times New Roman 12pt left alligned. So where the heck are the hanging indents coming from? And ShortHand is TOTALLY not another style. You put "Ctrl+B" in front of the word, and that causes it to be bold. "Ctrl+E" causes it to be center aligned, etc. So I REALLY don't get how I end up with a hanging indent in a paragraph that has "Ctrl+L" in front of it! It says in that linked document that copied text will retain any direct formatting, which is what "Ctrl+L" is, direct formatting. Hmmm, maybe I need to place "Ctrl+L" in front of each line... That still doesn't explain copying from Normal to Normal, and having everything go screwy. I DO NOT want to abandon all formatting. The documents have direct formatting that I need. It would double my production time to have to reformat separate lines after pasting. My documents vary, but usually have the title of the exam (Radiology transcription) bolded, centered and underlined. Then everything is left aligned in the body. Then bolded and all caps in the impression at the bottom. IS there any way to prevent hanging indent from EVER happening? Or is that just a pipe dream? This job is all about production speed. Anything that takes extra time is basically a cut in pay. Perhaps a macro? I have never used one... |
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Hi Cheri
CTRL & SHIFT & T should only remove the hanging indent (unless someone's played with your settings) choose tools / customize and click on the keyboard button choose FORMAT in the categories and UNHANG in the commands and see what key is assigned to it. Hope this helps Cheers JulieD "Cheri" wrote in message ... The Ctrl+T seems to get rid of all formatting, not just the indent. "JulieD" wrote in message ... Hi Cheri can't think why its happening, but the keyboard shortcut for removing hanging indents is CTRL & SHIFT & T maybe this will speed up things. (You might like to try CTRL & A to select the whole document and then CTRL & SHIFT & T to remove any hanging indents - it should do all the document at once and hopefully not mess anything else up) Cheers JulieD "Cheri" wrote in message ... But the thing is, both documents are in Normal style, Times New Roman 12pt left alligned. So where the heck are the hanging indents coming from? And ShortHand is TOTALLY not another style. You put "Ctrl+B" in front of the word, and that causes it to be bold. "Ctrl+E" causes it to be center aligned, etc. So I REALLY don't get how I end up with a hanging indent in a paragraph that has "Ctrl+L" in front of it! It says in that linked document that copied text will retain any direct formatting, which is what "Ctrl+L" is, direct formatting. Hmmm, maybe I need to place "Ctrl+L" in front of each line... That still doesn't explain copying from Normal to Normal, and having everything go screwy. I DO NOT want to abandon all formatting. The documents have direct formatting that I need. It would double my production time to have to reformat separate lines after pasting. My documents vary, but usually have the title of the exam (Radiology transcription) bolded, centered and underlined. Then everything is left aligned in the body. Then bolded and all caps in the impression at the bottom. IS there any way to prevent hanging indent from EVER happening? Or is that just a pipe dream? This job is all about production speed. Anything that takes extra time is basically a cut in pay. Perhaps a macro? I have never used one... |
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Yeah, that's what I meant Ctrl+Shift+T. It says that is the keyboard
shortcut for unhang, but I selected my entire document, some 50 pages, and did that. ALL the formatting disappeared. I then selected Undo, and saved it and went back to work. A little while later I looked up into the document further, and found LOTS of things that were still out of whack, even though I clicked on undo. Things were bolded that hadn't been, things were unbolded that had been, left aligned that had been centered, grrrr. Another problem I have is, when my page runs over to a second page, and I add a page break, and then put in my header for PAGE 2 stuff, with all the patient info, since the paragraph that I am in the middle of was all caps, the all caps won't go off, even when I turn it off on the keyboard. I have to go to Format, Font, and turn off all caps from there. It is SO frustrating. I give up! It is evidently my lot in life to fight with Word, lol. "JulieD" wrote in message ... Hi Cheri CTRL & SHIFT & T should only remove the hanging indent (unless someone's played with your settings) choose tools / customize and click on the keyboard button choose FORMAT in the categories and UNHANG in the commands and see what key is assigned to it. Hope this helps Cheers JulieD "Cheri" wrote in message ... The Ctrl+T seems to get rid of all formatting, not just the indent. "JulieD" wrote in message ... Hi Cheri can't think why its happening, but the keyboard shortcut for removing hanging indents is CTRL & SHIFT & T maybe this will speed up things. (You might like to try CTRL & A to select the whole document and then CTRL & SHIFT & T to remove any hanging indents - it should do all the document at once and hopefully not mess anything else up) Cheers JulieD "Cheri" wrote in message ... But the thing is, both documents are in Normal style, Times New Roman 12pt left alligned. So where the heck are the hanging indents coming from? And ShortHand is TOTALLY not another style. You put "Ctrl+B" in front of the word, and that causes it to be bold. "Ctrl+E" causes it to be center aligned, etc. So I REALLY don't get how I end up with a hanging indent in a paragraph that has "Ctrl+L" in front of it! It says in that linked document that copied text will retain any direct formatting, which is what "Ctrl+L" is, direct formatting. Hmmm, maybe I need to place "Ctrl+L" in front of each line... That still doesn't explain copying from Normal to Normal, and having everything go screwy. I DO NOT want to abandon all formatting. The documents have direct formatting that I need. It would double my production time to have to reformat separate lines after pasting. My documents vary, but usually have the title of the exam (Radiology transcription) bolded, centered and underlined. Then everything is left aligned in the body. Then bolded and all caps in the impression at the bottom. IS there any way to prevent hanging indent from EVER happening? Or is that just a pipe dream? This job is all about production speed. Anything that takes extra time is basically a cut in pay. Perhaps a macro? I have never used one... |
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Hi Cheri
this is definitely not word's normal behaviour .... it sounds to me like either Word's kicking in with its autoformat options (but you said these are off), or the document's corrupt, or you've got a virus. one option, with your document open, open a new blank document. click at the start of yours do CTRL & SHIFT & END hold down the shift key and arrow left once now copy this & paste into a new document save this copy and see if it behaves any better. (oh, and do a virus scan at some point) Hope this helps Cheers julieD "Cheri" wrote in message ... Yeah, that's what I meant Ctrl+Shift+T. It says that is the keyboard shortcut for unhang, but I selected my entire document, some 50 pages, and did that. ALL the formatting disappeared. I then selected Undo, and saved it and went back to work. A little while later I looked up into the document further, and found LOTS of things that were still out of whack, even though I clicked on undo. Things were bolded that hadn't been, things were unbolded that had been, left aligned that had been centered, grrrr. Another problem I have is, when my page runs over to a second page, and I add a page break, and then put in my header for PAGE 2 stuff, with all the patient info, since the paragraph that I am in the middle of was all caps, the all caps won't go off, even when I turn it off on the keyboard. I have to go to Format, Font, and turn off all caps from there. It is SO frustrating. I give up! It is evidently my lot in life to fight with Word, lol. "JulieD" wrote in message ... Hi Cheri CTRL & SHIFT & T should only remove the hanging indent (unless someone's played with your settings) choose tools / customize and click on the keyboard button choose FORMAT in the categories and UNHANG in the commands and see what key is assigned to it. Hope this helps Cheers JulieD "Cheri" wrote in message ... The Ctrl+T seems to get rid of all formatting, not just the indent. "JulieD" wrote in message ... Hi Cheri can't think why its happening, but the keyboard shortcut for removing hanging indents is CTRL & SHIFT & T maybe this will speed up things. (You might like to try CTRL & A to select the whole document and then CTRL & SHIFT & T to remove any hanging indents - it should do all the document at once and hopefully not mess anything else up) Cheers JulieD "Cheri" wrote in message ... But the thing is, both documents are in Normal style, Times New Roman 12pt left alligned. So where the heck are the hanging indents coming from? And ShortHand is TOTALLY not another style. You put "Ctrl+B" in front of the word, and that causes it to be bold. "Ctrl+E" causes it to be center aligned, etc. So I REALLY don't get how I end up with a hanging indent in a paragraph that has "Ctrl+L" in front of it! It says in that linked document that copied text will retain any direct formatting, which is what "Ctrl+L" is, direct formatting. Hmmm, maybe I need to place "Ctrl+L" in front of each line... That still doesn't explain copying from Normal to Normal, and having everything go screwy. I DO NOT want to abandon all formatting. The documents have direct formatting that I need. It would double my production time to have to reformat separate lines after pasting. My documents vary, but usually have the title of the exam (Radiology transcription) bolded, centered and underlined. Then everything is left aligned in the body. Then bolded and all caps in the impression at the bottom. IS there any way to prevent hanging indent from EVER happening? Or is that just a pipe dream? This job is all about production speed. Anything that takes extra time is basically a cut in pay. Perhaps a macro? I have never used one... |
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You might also see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...eformatted.htm (and consider the possibility that you might be causing the hanging indents by inadvertently pressing Ctrl+T). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "JulieD" wrote in message ... Hi Cheri this is definitely not word's normal behaviour .... it sounds to me like either Word's kicking in with its autoformat options (but you said these are off), or the document's corrupt, or you've got a virus. one option, with your document open, open a new blank document. click at the start of yours do CTRL & SHIFT & END hold down the shift key and arrow left once now copy this & paste into a new document save this copy and see if it behaves any better. (oh, and do a virus scan at some point) Hope this helps Cheers julieD "Cheri" wrote in message ... Yeah, that's what I meant Ctrl+Shift+T. It says that is the keyboard shortcut for unhang, but I selected my entire document, some 50 pages, and did that. ALL the formatting disappeared. I then selected Undo, and saved it and went back to work. A little while later I looked up into the document further, and found LOTS of things that were still out of whack, even though I clicked on undo. Things were bolded that hadn't been, things were unbolded that had been, left aligned that had been centered, grrrr. Another problem I have is, when my page runs over to a second page, and I add a page break, and then put in my header for PAGE 2 stuff, with all the patient info, since the paragraph that I am in the middle of was all caps, the all caps won't go off, even when I turn it off on the keyboard. I have to go to Format, Font, and turn off all caps from there. It is SO frustrating. I give up! It is evidently my lot in life to fight with Word, lol. "JulieD" wrote in message ... Hi Cheri CTRL & SHIFT & T should only remove the hanging indent (unless someone's played with your settings) choose tools / customize and click on the keyboard button choose FORMAT in the categories and UNHANG in the commands and see what key is assigned to it. Hope this helps Cheers JulieD "Cheri" wrote in message ... The Ctrl+T seems to get rid of all formatting, not just the indent. "JulieD" wrote in message ... Hi Cheri can't think why its happening, but the keyboard shortcut for removing hanging indents is CTRL & SHIFT & T maybe this will speed up things. (You might like to try CTRL & A to select the whole document and then CTRL & SHIFT & T to remove any hanging indents - it should do all the document at once and hopefully not mess anything else up) Cheers JulieD "Cheri" wrote in message ... But the thing is, both documents are in Normal style, Times New Roman 12pt left alligned. So where the heck are the hanging indents coming from? And ShortHand is TOTALLY not another style. You put "Ctrl+B" in front of the word, and that causes it to be bold. "Ctrl+E" causes it to be center aligned, etc. So I REALLY don't get how I end up with a hanging indent in a paragraph that has "Ctrl+L" in front of it! It says in that linked document that copied text will retain any direct formatting, which is what "Ctrl+L" is, direct formatting. Hmmm, maybe I need to place "Ctrl+L" in front of each line... That still doesn't explain copying from Normal to Normal, and having everything go screwy. I DO NOT want to abandon all formatting. The documents have direct formatting that I need. It would double my production time to have to reformat separate lines after pasting. My documents vary, but usually have the title of the exam (Radiology transcription) bolded, centered and underlined. Then everything is left aligned in the body. Then bolded and all caps in the impression at the bottom. IS there any way to prevent hanging indent from EVER happening? Or is that just a pipe dream? This job is all about production speed. Anything that takes extra time is basically a cut in pay. Perhaps a macro? I have never used one... |
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I have already unchecked the automatically update.
Ctrl+T is not something I have ever done, even on accident. If it were near the V on the keyboard, I might suspect that, but it isn't anywhere near that. This happend on paste. It also happens on insertion from ShortHand, and that is simply by my pressing the spacebar after typing a shortcut. None of the shortcuts contain Ctrl+T. It was happening on my previous PC in Word 2000. I thought it might be a memory issue. It isn't just the indent, but also bold and underline sometimes. I DO use those options in each document, so I can see how they might carry over to another paragraph, although pressing "clear style" has no effect on it happening again later. But I NEVER use the indent. Anyway, I bought a brand new PC, and have Word 2002 now. No way there is a virus. And the exact same thing is happening. I am sure it is something that I am doing, or should be doing, since it happened in 2 different versions. I am the common denominator. But I just KNOW I haven't accidently pushed Ctrl+T at any time in my entire life. It is an awkward key combination, lol. When I have the styles list up beside my work, there are no instances of "hanging indent" listed during my work. Not until I paste or insert from ShortHand. Then BOOM, there it is in the list, out of nowhere. I change the indents back to normal, then delete it from the styles list. But, it shows up again later, no matter what. I unchecked the Smart Paste option yesterday thinking (hoping) that might be something involved. But it changed nothing. Like I said before, I wish there were a way to totally disable the indent feature. I have always either left aligned or centered all of my work. I never use any type of indent, don't want it, don't need it, HATE it, lol. I totally understand how to get rid of it after it happens, just can't figure out how to stop it from happening to begin with. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... You might also see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...eformatted.htm (and consider the possibility that you might be causing the hanging indents by inadvertently pressing Ctrl+T). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "JulieD" wrote in message ... Hi Cheri this is definitely not word's normal behaviour .... it sounds to me like either Word's kicking in with its autoformat options (but you said these are off), or the document's corrupt, or you've got a virus. one option, with your document open, open a new blank document. click at the start of yours do CTRL & SHIFT & END hold down the shift key and arrow left once now copy this & paste into a new document save this copy and see if it behaves any better. (oh, and do a virus scan at some point) Hope this helps Cheers julieD "Cheri" wrote in message ... Yeah, that's what I meant Ctrl+Shift+T. It says that is the keyboard shortcut for unhang, but I selected my entire document, some 50 pages, and did that. ALL the formatting disappeared. I then selected Undo, and saved it and went back to work. A little while later I looked up into the document further, and found LOTS of things that were still out of whack, even though I clicked on undo. Things were bolded that hadn't been, things were unbolded that had been, left aligned that had been centered, grrrr. Another problem I have is, when my page runs over to a second page, and I add a page break, and then put in my header for PAGE 2 stuff, with all the patient info, since the paragraph that I am in the middle of was all caps, the all caps won't go off, even when I turn it off on the keyboard. I have to go to Format, Font, and turn off all caps from there. It is SO frustrating. I give up! It is evidently my lot in life to fight with Word, lol. "JulieD" wrote in message ... Hi Cheri CTRL & SHIFT & T should only remove the hanging indent (unless someone's played with your settings) choose tools / customize and click on the keyboard button choose FORMAT in the categories and UNHANG in the commands and see what key is assigned to it. Hope this helps Cheers JulieD "Cheri" wrote in message ... The Ctrl+T seems to get rid of all formatting, not just the indent. "JulieD" wrote in message ... Hi Cheri can't think why its happening, but the keyboard shortcut for removing hanging indents is CTRL & SHIFT & T maybe this will speed up things. (You might like to try CTRL & A to select the whole document and then CTRL & SHIFT & T to remove any hanging indents - it should do all the document at once and hopefully not mess anything else up) Cheers JulieD "Cheri" wrote in message ... But the thing is, both documents are in Normal style, Times New Roman 12pt left alligned. So where the heck are the hanging indents coming from? And ShortHand is TOTALLY not another style. You put "Ctrl+B" in front of the word, and that causes it to be bold. "Ctrl+E" causes it to be center aligned, etc. So I REALLY don't get how I end up with a hanging indent in a paragraph that has "Ctrl+L" in front of it! It says in that linked document that copied text will retain any direct formatting, which is what "Ctrl+L" is, direct formatting. Hmmm, maybe I need to place "Ctrl+L" in front of each line... That still doesn't explain copying from Normal to Normal, and having everything go screwy. I DO NOT want to abandon all formatting. The documents have direct formatting that I need. It would double my production time to have to reformat separate lines after pasting. My documents vary, but usually have the title of the exam (Radiology transcription) bolded, centered and underlined. Then everything is left aligned in the body. Then bolded and all caps in the impression at the bottom. IS there any way to prevent hanging indent from EVER happening? Or is that just a pipe dream? This job is all about production speed. Anything that takes extra time is basically a cut in pay. Perhaps a macro? I have never used one... |
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