This quickly fixes the "soft returns" and puts them back to how they're supposed to be.Answer: Click the alignment button on the Home tab, in the Paragraph group for the justification that you want or press one of the shortcut keys: Ctrl+L Align Left Text aligns with the left margin, and the right margin is ragged. Until you try to paste it into word or open it up in a word document that doesn't have this error. They just hit "enter" twice, effectively making two soft returns. If someone is experiencing the format issues in which their paragraphs aren't being separated, they can fix it by the suggestion given in six above. The second replace fixes the double spaces you create from doing the first fix.Ģ) Replace "^p^p" with "^p". Do you see what I just did there? I removed all of the instances in which you forgot to put a space after your period. If your work has no decimals, you could also replace "." With ". (Or one with two if that happens to be your writing style. Here are a few simple mistakes that could quickly be fixed with the repair.ġ) Replace ". It is seriously important when doing editing, and I think too many people do far more work than they need to because they never thing to use it. You may find that you don't need to clear any formatting if you pasted it correctly in the first place.ĭo not underestimate the use of the Replace function. Text out which paste option gives you the results you desire.
Keep text only, paste with source formatting, merge formatting. You can go to advanced and see all the different ways to paste. Once copying some text, right click to paste, and you'll see more than one option. Nowadays, you can paste in many different formats. Back in the day, you used to have only one form of pasting. Of course, how you paste also matters to how it looks. 6 pts would look normal, but you can bring it up to 12 without things looking too weird.Īnyway, those six steps would fix a large amount of errors, such as when you see all of your paragraphs crumbled up as a block of text. Decide where you want your spacing to be, in 95% of cases, whether it's before or after won't matter, it'll look the same. 6 pts is usually the minimum (either before or after or both). This is the biggest difference you probably see. (Unless it calls for double spaced)Ħ) The Before and After spacing are the spacing between paragraphs. Here's the second part.Ģ)Ĝhange all of the fonts to the font of choice and size of choice.ģ) Right click while it's selected, and go to paragraph.Ĥ)ěack sure text is aligned to the left (this is in home/paragraph)ĥ) Line spacing should be single or 1.5. Just google it, most word editors should have one.
After that, under home/font, at least in Microsoft word 2013/2016. Ctrl+A or "select all" under home/editing will select all of the text for you. The simplest way to fix this is to clear formatting. So the editing is on the fritz and you just can't get things to work the way you want them to. Some of this stuff might be worth doing even without the need to fix a format, just on principal.Ĭlear all Formatting and Start From Scratch So how do you go about fixing these issues? Here are a couple offers of advice to help fix some of the more common problems. Word, Wattpad, and whatever other text editor you like to use don't always work hand in hand. You'll see strange spacing issues, random tabs, and crap that won't work no matter what the heck you do. Where ever copy and pasting is involved, you're opening yourself up to a world of pain.
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