Oopsies

Have you ever typed a few dashes in between paragraphs (like as a placeholder or something), hit enter, and somehow wound up with a line all the way across the page that you can’t get rid of, no matter how many times you hit the Delete key?

Infuriating, isn’t it? But I’m here to tell you: It’s both fixable and preventable. (Yay!) Here’s how.

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One of the tactics I regularly recommend to users when transferring content from an old WordPerfect document is to use Paste, Special, Unformatted Text instead of just the plain Paste or CNTRL-V commands: The advantage here is that Paste Special clears out all of the formatting so the newly-pasted text doesn’t mess up your nice [...]

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Taming naughty footnotes, pt. 1

by WordGuru on March 27, 2010

Have a footnote in Microsoft Word 2007 that keeps dropping down to a subsequent page? Here’s how to fix it.

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Why your pages break in weird places, part two

by VideoTutor on May 16, 2009

Here’s a video tutorial showing how Block Protect in Microsoft Word can sometimes mess up pagination, and how to fix it.

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Why your pages break in weird places

by WordGuru on May 11, 2009

Ever have text that mysteriously insisted on dropping down to the following page, despite the fact there was plenty of room on the page before? Here’s how to fix those bad boys.

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Copying text from a WordPerfect document into Word can result in formatting disasters. Here’s how to avoid problems.

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