suzakugaiden

anyway, er, I managed to totally screw up MS Word somehow, so I sort of need some advice :|

Basically, I inserted whatever --- turns into (Looks like a big line across the page). I think it's a section break or something. How, er, do I delete these?

Also, any other formatting tricks I should look out for?

journyman161

If you haven't inserted a section break & you're in normal view, try page layout view instead. You're probably seeing the normal page break word puts in. If this isn't the problem, let me know.

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Hodge

If you can't type after it, then it's a line break. Otherwise it's probably a section break. There should be an option under your edit menu to remove the break when you put your cursor on it.

If you're just typing, though, it doesn't matter. Most of the features in Word are for desktop publishers—if you're just writing a story you probably won't need to do anything more than make a header and maybe use a style or three.

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suzakugaiden

Yeah, but when I try to write past the last one, it like, whelps a bunch of other section breaks and I get all these lines in crap in places where they shouldn't be. And it looks doofy. Anyway, word's acting up now, so I'll try the normal view thing tomorrow.

journyman161

Um... have you virus-checked with updated definitions recently?

There's an icon that looks like a paragraph marker (back to front P symbol) up in your toolbar. If it's not visible, click on the lilttle toolbar options arrow & choose it. Click it on & you'll see dots for spaces & para markers and breaks. Turn it off & all you see is page breaks.

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*He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary - William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)
*Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? - Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner)
*Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it - Moses Hadas
*He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know - Abraham Lincoln

lisajane

Oh I do this all the time. It's a section break. When you hit Enter the --- come across as a solid line. To get rid of it, just highlight the line and the space immediately above and below it, and hit Delete.

If you want the --- on their own, do the following:

1. Put a space between each '-', so it looks like - - -

2. This will result in a left aligned bulleted list. It will look like:
- - -
-

As the post doesn't like the structuing, my bolding means it's indented on Word.

3. Your cursor will be to the right of the '-' on the second line. Hit Backspace to clear it and be at the beginning of that second line.

4. Hit Backspace again, and the line above as the bulleted dots will become what you wanted:

- - -
becomes
- - -

If you wanted it centered, then highlight the lines and centre them, then click under it to keep typing. Do NOT hit Enter to do this as you will get the bulleted list again.

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