Please Help Me Out Of Word Hell

[cannoli38]

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
Processor: Intel

I have been using Word for years and still can't get it right. I copied and pasted a resume into a yahoo email and mailed it to myself. The resume dates and other info is all over the place. I am trying to create a Word document from the email I sent and I cannot get Bullet listings to go single space on the top half of the document. They will only go double spaced while the rest of the Bullets listings are fine. When I check Paragraph under format it says its Single. So why can't I get the lines to list with single spaces? Also, the document was originally on one page but now is on two. How can I get it all on one page. I was making the font smaller but that didnt help. There should be a way to convert a google or yahoo email into a Word document. If there is please let me know. This is very frustrating. Any help would be great. I hope what I wrote makes sense.
thanks.

 

[Michel Bintener]

Hi,

select the bullet list and click on Format>Paragraph to see if there is no
Space Before or Space After setting. If there is, set it to 0. The best
solution would be to delete the section and copy it again from the e-mail
message. Then, in Word, place the cursor where you want the list to appear
and click on Edit>Paste Special. Choose Text Only from the dialogue that
shows up, and then format the plain text list that shows up. The Paste
Special method always guarantees reliable and predictable result, since all
types of formatting are stripped.

 

[cannoli38]

Thank you. That really helped. One issue I am still having is getting the last Bullet on the bottom to line up under the others. When I use the Format/Bullets and Numbering tool it always places that Bullet too far to the right and I can't move it to the left. How can I get that last Bullet to line up with the rest. Also, after following your directions why couldn't I highlight certain info on the left and move it to the center of the page? The highlighted info would just snap back to the left.
thanks for your help.

 

[CyberTaz]

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There should be a way to convert a google or yahoo email into a Word
document.

<snip>

I don't use web mail services because of the limitations [The old "You get
what you pay for" adage ] but there should be some sort of Save As option
for a message. It may not expressly offer .doc or .docx format, but .txt or
..rtf should most certainly be there. As Michel replied, the source of the
problem is Copy/Paste - it's always best avoided if possible.

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[Michel Bintener]

Hi,

it's difficult for me to say as I don't have the document in front of me.
Some formatting won't work because the invisible formatting made by the
source (the webmail interface) was probably copied across before you started
editing the list. My suggestion: never paste rich text content if you can
avoid it. It is generally not a good idea to rely on webmail interfaces (see
Bob's comments for further details), so I would suggest starting all over
with the document, by pasting the plain text from the original source into a
new Word document.

If you often need to write documents, consider saving them on a USB flash
drive, or perhaps give Google Docs a try. These two solutions are more
reliable than the one you are using right now, and you do not have to waste
your time reformatting everything.