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Sorry, I googled everywhere but the directions still don't work.
All I want to do is align the text I highlight -- but Word insists on aligning all the text in the document.
And when I want to indent when starting a new paragraph -- it indents the entire paper.
I can't add spacing to my paper either without Word wanting to space between the title, name, date etc...
Everything is on default, it does this shit all the time.
Maybe I'm just really that retarded, I've only used Apple Works and it just does what you want it to do.
any help would be appreciated -- i'm sure it's a really obvious solution =/
 
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welcome to the wonderful world of microsoft!
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are you fucking retarded? highlight the text and click on the alignment you want in to the toolbar. press tab to indent. hit spacebar for a space.
User was tamp banned for this post
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On October 01 2009 08:11 decafchicken wrote:
are you fucking retarded? highlight the text and click on the alignment you want in to the toolbar. press tab to indent. hit spacebar for a space.
If you aren't going to read my post, its better that you simply don't respond.
I highlight what I want to align, hit the alignment I desire, and word aligns the entire paper instead.
What am I doing wrong?
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You're not retarded, 2007 just changed a lot of stuff that we were all used to.
To fix alignment, you can bring out the ruler by clicking the little box right above the scroll bar on the right.
To fix spacing after paragraphs, click the spacing icon in the paragraph section in the home tab. There should be an option that's something like "remove space after paragraph."
Hope that helps.
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On October 01 2009 08:13 eMbrace wrote:Show nested quote +On October 01 2009 08:11 decafchicken wrote:
are you fucking retarded? highlight the text and click on the alignment you want in to the toolbar. press tab to indent. hit spacebar for a space. If you aren't going to read my post, its better that you simply don't respond. I highlight what I want to align, hit the alignment I desire, and word aligns the entire paper instead. What am I doing wrong?
Hard to tell what you're doing wrong, since I just tried out the process as you exactly described, and it worked fine. As far as spacing goes, it works the same way, highlight text you want spaced differently, then change the spacing =/
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http://www.openoffice.org/
Free, easy to use, better than anything Microsoft or ANY company has made, and you can save your files as any type of text document you like.
It's a complete office suite, like you would be getting if you bought MS Office. Documents, Spreadsheets, databases, etc.
Did I mention it was free?
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is the text you're dealing with something that you composed in word or something that was copy+pasted from somewhere else? sometimes word does some weird things with treating pasted text as a block of text rather than individual lines. my trick has always been to put in a line break at the end of a line and then reassemble it, that'll usually turn off auto-indenting and stuff like that. also, openoffice is bad.
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Sometimes MS Word doesn't do what it is 'supposed' to because you trigger features/services that you aren't interested in... and the things that normally 'work' suddenly startstop working. Depending on what you are typing you might want to consider pasting the entire document into textpad or something to lose the formating, pasting it back into a fresh word document, and then reformatting?
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On October 01 2009 08:25 micronesia wrote:
Sometimes MS Word doesn't do what it is 'supposed' to because you trigger features/services that you aren't interested in... and the things that normally 'work' suddenly stop working. Depending on what you are typing you might want to consider pasting the entire document into textpad or something to lose the formating, pasting it back into a fresh word document, and then reformatting?
this is also a good idea/trick
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On October 01 2009 08:26 benjammin wrote:Show nested quote +On October 01 2009 08:25 micronesia wrote:
Sometimes MS Word doesn't do what it is 'supposed' to because you trigger features/services that you aren't interested in... and the things that normally 'work' suddenly startstop working. Depending on what you are typing you might want to consider pasting the entire document into textpad or something to lose the formating, pasting it back into a fresh word document, and then reformatting? this is also a good idea/trick
I made a mistake... note the bolded correction lol
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thanks for the help guys, let me try this stuff out
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On October 01 2009 08:29 eMbrace wrote:
thanks for the help guys, let me try this stuff out
Did I mention OpenOffice can save text documents as a Microsoft word file?
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On October 01 2009 08:18 VorcePA wrote:http://www.openoffice.org/Free, easy to use, better than anything Microsoft or ANY company has made, and you can save your files as any type of text document you like. It's a complete office suite, like you would be getting if you bought MS Office. Documents, Spreadsheets, databases, etc. Did I mention it was free?
I've tried OO several times (it used to be a different name which I can't remember now) over the years and I've always hated it.
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On October 01 2009 08:48 GogoKodo wrote:Show nested quote +On October 01 2009 08:18 VorcePA wrote:http://www.openoffice.org/Free, easy to use, better than anything Microsoft or ANY company has made, and you can save your files as any type of text document you like. It's a complete office suite, like you would be getting if you bought MS Office. Documents, Spreadsheets, databases, etc. Did I mention it was free? I've tried OO several times (it used to be a different name which I can't remember now) over the years and I've always hated it.
/me has an aneurysm
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On October 01 2009 08:51 VorcePA wrote:Show nested quote +On October 01 2009 08:48 GogoKodo wrote:On October 01 2009 08:18 VorcePA wrote:http://www.openoffice.org/Free, easy to use, better than anything Microsoft or ANY company has made, and you can save your files as any type of text document you like. It's a complete office suite, like you would be getting if you bought MS Office. Documents, Spreadsheets, databases, etc. Did I mention it was free? I've tried OO several times (it used to be a different name which I can't remember now) over the years and I've always hated it. /me has an aneurysm
seriously open office is so awesome...
except for the excel substitute especially when you are making graphs... nothing can compare to excel. the word processor for oo is awesome though.
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On October 01 2009 08:36 rusty23456 wrote:
word.
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ok i just downloaded the MLA essay template and everything is working now -_-
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