Help.

[turps]

Does anyone know why Word would suddenly make my spacing collapse when I post a story into LJ? The first part is fine, but the stuff I've been editing is just a jumbled mess with no line breaks. While I can fix it by hand, I'd rather know what's up.

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[nopseud]

Bugger. That Word line break issue happened to me once, and I can't remember exactly what caused it. I *think* it's something to do with copying and pasting, where Word creates some weird style from the pasted in text and then anything which you type into the area ends up with the same crappy formating -- basically, it's faking line breaks but there aren't in fact 'real' breaks there when you copy and paste out again.

Try selecting the whole document, then setting the paragraph style to normal.

[turps33.livejournal.com]

I'm glad it's happened to other people. Which sounds bad but it's driving me nuts.

Try selecting the whole document, then setting the paragraph style to normal.

I tried that and it's still a no go. That rouge line is still killing the rest of the fic.

[nopseud]

Hmm. Have you tried opening a new document, and copypastaing the two halves above and below the rogue line into it, without actually copying the rogue line?

Also possibly worth a try, save the file as plain .txt format, or the closest that Word does these days.

(Word! Tool of Satan! Install OpenOffice instead!)