Re: WORD: Problems with paragraph margins

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On Friday 03 February 2006 10:34, Elizabeth O'Shea wrote:

> Some of the imported text is fine, and the left align is correct. But a lot
> of it is as above. Any suggestions?

If I may patronize you for a second:  Are you showing all hidden text, etc? 

I've seen inexplicable things happen in Word, sorry but it ought to be said.  
Solutions for inexplicableness range from changing to another view, closing 
and reopening Word, reinstalling Windows,...  

I'm rusty on the dynamics of HTML importing, so I don't know but I wonder 
(rhetorically) if it prefers styles as defined in the HTML (any CSS or inline 
styles) over styles in the template your import is attached to?  Do you 
specify the template when you import?  

I wouldn't be surprised to find artifacts, introduced or left over from the 
HTML-->Word conversion, in the imported result.  So, if you don't find a 
simpler answer, you might as well take a close look at the original HTML and 
see what objects or modified/inline or CSS Body Text style might have come 
along in the import.  An extreme case would be a cell, frame, or picture with 
a wide border sitting off in the negative margin, forcing the rogue position 
onto the text. 

Lastly, I've seen something like what you described when the text is in an 
invisible table (no borders).  You can style it and left align and set 
margins all day long, and it will still stubbornly sit wherever the table 
cell sits on the page.  

Hope this helps. 

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