border appears differently in formatting dialog than it does in do

[MaryM]

We have a Heading 1 style that uses the border feature to accent the text,
something like this |Heading 1. The border is set to appear to the left of
the text, and this is how it appears in the border formatting dialog, but on
the page the border appears on the right margin.

We've been using the same template for about 5 years and this corruption
occurs to docs every now and then, but we're not sure what causes it.

 

[Robert M. Franz [RMF]]

Hello Mary

We have a Heading 1 style that uses the border feature to accent the text,
something like this |Heading 1. The border is set to appear to the left of
the text, and this is how it appears in the border formatting dialog, but on
the page the border appears on the right margin.

We've been using the same template for about 5 years and this corruption
occurs to docs every now and then, but we're not sure what causes it.

the bogus document's Heading 1 style has changed to right-border
formatting? Or is there direct formatting in play?

What happens if you remove any direct paragraph formatting (CTRL-Space)?
Or, if you afterwards force, say, the normal style (CTRL-SHIFT-N) and
then re-apply Heading 1 style?

HTH
Robert

 

[MaryM]

Hi Robert,
Thanks for trying to help with this one.
I answered your questions below.

Hello Mary


the bogus document's Heading 1 style has changed to right-border
formatting? Or is there direct formatting in play?

The weirdness appears (suddenly and only occassionaly) even when there have
not be any changes to the Heading 1 style and when there has been no
inline/direct formatting applied to the text.

What happens if you remove any direct paragraph formatting (CTRL-Space)?
Or, if you afterwards force, say, the normal style (CTRL-SHIFT-N) and
then re-apply Heading 1 style?

Nothing happens when we try to remove any direct formatting or try to
reapply the style. Oddly, if we do apply direct (inline) formatting to the
misbehaving text, use the border dialog, move the border to the opposite side
- i.e., apply the border to the right of the text, it often appears as we
intended in the Word doc, appearing to the left of the text! But even in this
scenario we're often out of luck, because when we produce a PDF of the doc,
the border again appears on the wrong side.

 

[Robert M. Franz [RMF]]

Hello Mary

sorry for being out of touch. More below ...

MaryM wrote:
[..]

The weirdness appears (suddenly and only occassionaly) even when there have
not be any changes to the Heading 1 style and when there has been no
inline/direct formatting applied to the text.
Nothing happens when we try to remove any direct formatting or try to
reapply the style. Oddly, if we do apply direct (inline) formatting to the
misbehaving text, use the border dialog, move the border to the opposite side
- i.e., apply the border to the right of the text, it often appears as we
intended in the Word doc, appearing to the left of the text! But even in this
scenario we're often out of luck, because when we produce a PDF of the doc,
the border again appears on the wrong side.

OK, if this happens only intermittently, your document or template might
indeed be slightly corrupt. There are different ways to tackle this,
depending on version of Word I'd try to save in a different format (XML
if you have Word 2003 professional, DOCX if you have Word 2007, RTF/HTML
otherwise) and back again into the intended format.

If you like, you can create a small sample document and send it to me,
though if it's corruption, I'm not sure I can do more than trying to
remove it.

HTH
Robert