[Solved] My formatting is breaking up

[Canna W]

Hi,

I would be most grateful for some help.

I use this document all the time, and alter it on a regular basis. Suddenly the formatting with some of the subtitles has started to go haywire. When I try to restore these to normality, it's as if the lines are no longer working properly. eg....

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[Canna W]

Oh dear.... Not sure how to upload an image. I will try again...

[url=https://www.flickr.com/gp/hills_alive/9Wp2N1f6Jh]

If I try and put this right by deleting a space at end of a line it doesn't work. It's as if the original line has split into these different lines with only a very limited amount of spaces on each line.... This line should read as one line - SMART ACRONYM & DESCRIPTION.

[LastUnicorn]

Seeing an image file doesn't really help. Post up a copy of the document itself so that others can open it and try to work out what is happening. To post an attachment/file to the forum do the following: [Forum] How to attach a document here

If the document is larger than the size allowed to post, 128 KiB, then edit the copy of the document so that you provide people with a section of document in which the problem exists.

[RoryOF]

A one page example file (not an image) would allow low level examination. In what format do you Save?

Also, to permit you see what is happening in your file, enable /View /Nonprinting characters, also /view /Text boundaries.. The display these give will show onscreen internal formatting marks, which will indicate whether you have inadvertently changed formatting parameters. These onscreen displays are non-printing.

[Canna W]

:LastUnicorn and RoryOF - Thank you so much for responding.

I'm not sure it would be okay for me to upload these pages as they are fairly confidential. I did however go to View and enable nonprinting characters and text boundaries, and this is what it looked like. I have realised that most of this document is fine. It just goes haywire for a few of the headings - and it is just the headings, not the body of the text that goes haywire. I tried again to re-type one of the problem headings, and it was as if Open Office had gone crazy.

Unfortunately I now no longer seem to have the option to upload the screen grab I took showing the nonprinting characters. Basically the good headings looked fine. You could clearly see the symbols where I had clicked Entry to create a new line. With the haywire entry there was no symbol to show I had pressed entry and created new lines. It seems like the programme had done this by itself, with no instructions from me...which was indeed the case. Also, as I said before, the body of the text was fine. Only the headings were affected, and only a few of the headings.

[Canna W]

Sorted out.....

A friend came along and either asked the Open Office programme to repair itself, or he uninstalled and reinstalled it. Either way, thank goodness, the problem is now sorted out.

[RoryOF]

Good that it is solved, but you don't know what happened, or even how to cure it. It may happen again, and you will be back where you started.

[Canna W]

Well, I also use Photoshop, and every now and then Photoshop goes a bit haywire. I have found with that by closing the programme and rebooting my computer, Photoshop usually rights itself. I presumed that the same thing happened with Open Office this morning. TBH I am an elderly and very ignorant computer user - I'm just grateful that things have resolved themselves.

However please make no mistake, I am extremely grateful for this forum, which has helped me on various occasions. In this instance I'm just crossing my fingers that things will be okay.

Thanks again for your help.