Unlikely. If the documents are not already corrupt, they will remain
uncorrupted unless you screw them up

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wrapless wrote:
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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Language settings? In Word? In Windows?
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"wrapless" wrote in
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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