How do I open txt files in MS Word 2007 as left-aligned? When I download
files and save them as txt, they've been opening as right-aligned in Word
(though they show up left-aligned in Notepad). Is there any way to change the
default in Word 2007?

Alignment is a formatting property of the text in the document, not a
setting in the program itself. IOW, if Word opens the file & displays it as
aligned right its because info in the file is telling Word to do so. Note
Pad is a bare-bones text editor - not a word processing program - and aligns
*everything* left because it can't do anything else:-)

Since you specify nothing about the type of file or where its being
"downloaded" from I can't offer anything more specific. But - although there
may be a few other possibilities - the alignment is set by something within
the file, itself.

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac



On 10/26/07 3:26 AM, in article
35E3B909-DD93-4BE5-9377-(E-Mail Removed), "SuzySushi"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

How do I open txt files in MS Word 2007 as left-aligned? When I download
files and save them as txt, they've been opening as right-aligned in Word
(though they show up left-aligned in Notepad). Is there any way to change
the
default in Word 2007?

Hmmmn... it doesn't seem to matter where the file is from -- they're all
opening that way (former Word 97-2003 user -- didn't have that problem then).
I save articles (mostly in "print view") from various websites such as The
Chicago Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and lots of trade
magazines. The source doesn't seem to matter.

Even articles that were previously saved (on my old system w/old version of
Word) as .txt files with left alignment are opening right-aligned!

Word 2007 brings up a "file conversion" box before opening each file,
suggesting Windows encoding as the default. The alignment doesn't change if I
change the encoding to Unicode or DOS.

Any ideas? This is so frustrating!

Thanks!
Suzy

"CyberTaz" wrote:

> Alignment is a formatting property of the text in the document, not a
> setting in the program itself. IOW, if Word opens the file & displays it as
> aligned right its because info in the file is telling Word to do so. Note
> Pad is a bare-bones text editor - not a word processing program - and aligns
> *everything* left because it can't do anything else:-)
>
> Since you specify nothing about the type of file or where its being
> "downloaded" from I can't offer anything more specific. But - although there
> may be a few other possibilities - the alignment is set by something within
> the file, itself.
>
> HTH |:>)
> Bob Jones
> [MVP] Office:Mac
>
>
>
> On 10/26/07 3:26 AM, in article
> 35E3B909-DD93-4BE5-9377-(E-Mail Removed), "SuzySushi"
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> How do I open txt files in MS Word 2007 as left-aligned? When I download
> files and save them as txt, they've been opening as right-aligned in Word
> (though they show up left-aligned in Notepad). Is there any way to change
> the
> default in Word 2007?
>
>