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?remove all formatting from emailed course manual
Hi. I am re-doing a training manual, which has been worked on by several people, then emailed to me. It's had several parts of it pasted in from other old manuals, emailed to many people and was apparently origianlly done in WordPerfect. It has the most mucked-up formatting I have ever seen i.e. when I try to re-number, very odd other number formats come up. When I re-format other text, when I print-preview something else odd pops up (I assume from a previous version's formatting). Rather than frustrate myself further, would it be best to remove all formatting, then start fresh? Would it be best to set up styles, then "select all instances"? It's almost 200 pages long. Thanks! Colleen.
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Colleen
Almost certainly that would be the best policy. Numbering is one of Word weakest points, and with the strange mixture of confused styles, stripping the formatting and starting afresh will probably be the best solution. Copy and Paste Special, choosing Unformatted Text option into a new document would be one way to go. That way you get a new document with no formatting and keep the old document to refer to reminding you what it should have looked like! -- Terry Farrell - Word MVP http://word.mvps.org/ "Colleen" wrote in message ... : : Hi. I am re-doing a training manual, which has been worked on by : several people, then emailed to me. It's had several parts of it : pasted in from other old manuals, emailed to many people and was : apparently origianlly done in WordPerfect. It has the most mucked-up : formatting I have ever seen i.e. when I try to re-number, very odd : other number formats come up. When I re-format other text, when I : print-preview something else odd pops up (I assume from a previous : version's formatting). Rather than frustrate myself further, would it : be best to remove all formatting, then start fresh? Would it be best to : set up styles, then "select all instances"? It's almost 200 pages long. : Thanks! Colleen. : : : -- : Colleen |
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Thanks very much, Terry. It's good to know it's not just me with the numbering muck-ups! I'm sure this will make it much easier than the nightmare I worked with last time! Colleen.
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