Thank you, thank you, thank you. You are an excellent pointer, indeed madam!
I followed your pointing and learned all about my corrupted normal.dot
template. As the tips instructed, I obliterated the sucker and then opened
Word. This apparently forces Word to create a new, pristine normal.dot and
Voila!! All was well in Linewrapland! My only concern is this; will
opening documents created with the tainted template cause the issue to
return?

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Haven't you already been pointed to
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm?

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"wrapless" wrote in message
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Ok, how on earth did it get corrupted? I haven't done anything earth
shattering, in fact I've hardly done anything at all with Word in ages.
Is
the software still that unstable? Lastly, how does one UN-corrupt this
thing.....and please don't tell me I have to re-install Word. Microsoft
HAS
to have come up with a more practical answer to its woes by now.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

The nonbreaking spaces are a red herring, I think. The document is
almost
certainly corrupt.

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"wrapless" wrote in message
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cadbetty could be talking about my computer, because the problem is
identical
to mine. I've tried displaying the non printing characters, but only
see
the
backwards P (hard return?) symbol. I haven't done anything unusual to
cause
this, and it's happening on all new documents w/ all fonts.

"Charles Kenyon" wrote:

If they are not marked by anything you aren't displaying them!
Ordinary
spaces will show up as a tiny dot with non-printing characters
displayed. If
you do have non-printing charters displayed and you are not seeing
dots,
you
are getting something other than a normal space when you press the
spacebar.
That would explain your problem and help with fixing it but I would
be
surprised if it were the case.
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"cadbetty" wrote in message
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The spaces in my document aren't marked by anything. I have
paragraph
marks,
indent marks, and a square at the beginning of each new paragraph.

I've deleted all unused styles in my document. I'll look around
for
line
break options.

I still need some help with this. It's beyond frustrating.

-cadbetty

"Charles Kenyon" wrote:

This sounds like what would happen with a non-breaking space
between
each
word. Have you looked at your document with non-printing
characters
displayed? A regular space will be a dot while a non-breaking
space
will
look like a degree symbol. º Don't know how you would be doing
this,
though.

Also, try turning on table gridlines.

I'm pretty sure Suzanne Barnhill has answered similar problems in
the
past,
but that may have been pages that wouldn't break, rather than
lines.
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awesome!
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Version of Word?
Language settings? In Word? In Windows?
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"wrapless" wrote in message
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When I'm typing along and come to the end of the line, Word
breaks
up
whatever word doesn't fit and sticks the rest on the next line.
The
documentation states that it is supposed to stick the entire
word
on
the
next
line, not leave one or two letters on the previous line. I'm
sure
it's
something simple, but I've looked everywhere and can't find a
check
box
or
a
setting to fix this. H
ALP