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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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a cool thing i just discovered, type:
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and it will give you a horizontal bar :D
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Am I the only one here who really finds OO inferior to word?
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On October 01 2009 09:15 EsX_Raptor wrote:
a cool thing i just discovered, type:
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and it will give you a horizontal bar :D
Lol I was in class today and was doing -> and it automatically made it to an actual arrow... score.
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On October 01 2009 09:33 triangle wrote:
Am I the only one here who really finds OO inferior to word?
nope. i do too. i've used it a couple times on windows and it's pretty bad..i never liked it 
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OO is comparable to office 2003 :S
the new gui in 2007 looks shinier :O
seriously tho, i like it
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On October 01 2009 11:46 DeathByMonkeys wrote:Show nested quote +On October 01 2009 09:15 EsX_Raptor wrote:
a cool thing i just discovered, type:
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and it will give you a horizontal bar :D Lol I was in class today and was doing -> and it automatically made it to an actual arrow... score.
Greatest thing (only thing) Word 2007 got right.
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C'mon, Microsoft Office is not as bad as you guys say. I've worked intensively with word 2k3, 2k7 and OO word, after getting used to 2k7, it's actually much better than 2k3, which is better than OO word
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Down with M$!!!!! I refuse to use anything made by them.
Linux / OO / anything open source 4tw!
One of my close friends bought Windows Vista and let's just say we don't talk much anymore. It's almost disgusting someone can give in to the corporate suits like that even when you know it suxors. You know what he said? "Vista ain't that bad."
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On October 01 2009 14:29 PokePill wrote:
One of my close friends bought Windows Vista and let's just say we don't talk much anymore.
Haha oh god.
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On October 01 2009 12:44 thoraxe wrote:+ Show Spoiler +On October 01 2009 11:46 DeathByMonkeys wrote:Show nested quote +On October 01 2009 09:15 EsX_Raptor wrote:
a cool thing i just discovered, type:
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and it will give you a horizontal bar :D Lol I was in class today and was doing -> and it automatically made it to an actual arrow... score. Greatest thing (only thing) Word 2007 got right.
The merge comments, compare docs and other stuff to do with red line changes are all very helpful / much improved in 2007 (even though it still screws up some things). Very useful when many people work on the same doc - happens a lot in any office.
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On October 01 2009 14:29 PokePill wrote:
Down with M$!!!!! I refuse to use anything made by them.
Linux / OO / anything open source 4tw!
One of my close friends bought Windows Vista and let's just say we don't talk much anymore. It's almost disgusting someone can give in to the corporate suits like that even when you know it suxors. You know what he said? "Vista ain't that bad."
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That's because it's not
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On October 01 2009 23:40 Kiarip wrote:Show nested quote +On October 01 2009 14:29 PokePill wrote:
Down with M$!!!!! I refuse to use anything made by them.
Linux / OO / anything open source 4tw!
One of my close friends bought Windows Vista and let's just say we don't talk much anymore. It's almost disgusting someone can give in to the corporate suits like that even when you know it suxors. You know what he said? "Vista ain't that bad."
..... That's because it's not
More than that, until Win7 comes out, I will be among the few to say that Vista is one of the best operating systems Microsoft has ever released.
I love Vista. :3
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On October 01 2009 09:33 triangle wrote:
Am I the only one here who really finds OO inferior to word?
Actually, the latest test show that the only thing latest MS Office (the whole packet, not just one part of it) has better than OOo is Excel. That is of course, if you know how to use it (and the truth is that 90% of the people using MSO/OOo/SO or any other office suite out there are not even using 10% of its capabilities). Seriously, when I saw some sample files made in MSO to open them with OOo (yup, it can open .docx files) and see how it handles them I couldn't believe people are doing such things. 2 page text document weighted 3,5MB, you would not believe what you can do with all this shit if you know how (as if you would need it).
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