Suddenly I have a single letter to each line

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Hotshoe

I'm not sure how it happened, but in my otherwise ordinary
document, suddenly it jumped from 20 pages to 107 because
a section in the middle started putting one character on
each line. I tried revealing the codes, but there's
nothing there that indicates why this happens. And I can't
place my cursor behind each letter, only before. Is there
an easy way to correct or reformat this? I turned off some
of the auto-format controls, just in case that caused it,
but that doesn't help me fix it. Thanks for any info.
 
J

Jay Freedman

Hi, Hotshoe,

The usual reason for that arrangement is that the paragraph indents (left,
right, or both) were accidentally set to a large value. Click anywhere in
the affected area and look at (a) the definition of the style (in Format >
Style) applied there and (b) the manual formatting in Format > Paragraph for
abnormally large indent values. If so, put them back to the usual values.
 
H

Hotshoe

Thanks for the tip, Jay, but that was one of the first
things I checked. I selected a portion of the document
that was still okay and duplicated those settings for the
section that was acting up, but it didn't help. I even
tried removing all indents. I even checked character
spacing, but that wasn't any different than the good
sections of text. Eventually, I did fix it, but what I had
to do was copy the (one-character-per-line) text and then
paste it into Wordpad, where it lost whatever weird
formatting it had. Then I copied and pasted from there
back into Word. It wasn't too difficult, but I'd still
like to figure out what I did that caused it to happen. (I
seem to recall it happening one other time.)

--hotshoe
The usual reason for that arrangement is that the paragraph indents (left,
right, or both) were accidentally set to a large value. Click anywhere in
the affected area and look at (a) the definition of the style (in Format >
Style) applied there and (b) the manual formatting in Format > Paragraph for
abnormally large indent values. If so, put them back to
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the usual values.
 
B

Bob S

Thanks for the tip, Jay, but that was one of the first
things I checked. I selected a portion of the document
that was still okay and duplicated those settings for the
section that was acting up, but it didn't help. I even
tried removing all indents. I even checked character
spacing, but that wasn't any different than the good
sections of text. Eventually, I did fix it, but what I had
to do was copy the (one-character-per-line) text and then
paste it into Wordpad, where it lost whatever weird
formatting it had. Then I copied and pasted from there
back into Word. It wasn't too difficult, but I'd still
like to figure out what I did that caused it to happen. (I
seem to recall it happening one other time.)

--hotshoe

the usual values.
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If you literally mean that a "section" (Word term of art) is doing
this, then perhaps you have a rogue text box or other wrapped object
in the header or footer for that section?

Bob S
 
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