Should have worked as previously posted. Only other "guess" on my part is their may be other settings stored in a global template. NORMAL.DOT is always loaded, but their may be group or global templates which have different settings.
If you want paragraphs to space properly, search and replace all back-to-back ^p, replace them with someother unique charachter or use what I do three forward slashes ///. Then replace all single ^p, do another search and replace, replace the 3 slashes with a single paragraph marker. Also...
Help makes it sound as if the IF is to be used during a mail merge. Is that what you want? easiest fix is to do the work in excel, copy the range, then paste special, paste Excel object, and make sure link box is checked. It will work
Only thing I can think of is you may be set up to use a start up template or workgroup. NORMAL.dot is usually used but if you are using start up DOTs you will not affect the normal dot, both will be used when opening the docs. Look under TOOLS, OPTIONS, FILE LOCATIONS, check to start up location...
The closest I have come is tabs (right aligned) with leaders in a table with the gridlines turned off. I do not have enough info to tell what else it might be.
^p = paragraph marker.
When you use convert text to table you have the option of using paragraph markers (^p) or tab characters (^t).
Are you using the REPLACE feature to tidy up your work? Also, activate the show non-printing characters button (next button to the left of the zoom percentage box)
Not enough info.
-Is the text copied from web page?
-What is the original source?
-Have you tried pasting into note or word pad to strip away formatting then copying and pasting it into Word?
-Have you tried selecting text you are going to convert and strip away formatting (CTRL+SHIFT+N)
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