How can I make documents keep chosen fonts and margins?

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How do I prevent strange formatting?
I find that when I set the margins and fonts for a file, the file sometimes
indicates the margins and fonts I selected in the boxes where one would
select or change them, but the result is different when I print the document.
This seems to happen especially to files into which I have copied data from
the Internet. Is there anything I can do to make such files take and keep
the formatting I have chosen?
 
G'day "RoughRiderBill" <[email protected]>,

Usually this is because of A4/Letter resizing

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RoughRiderBill reckoned:
 
I would not be too surprised if the pasted element carried its own formatting
with it (although I often seem able to change even that), but I do not
understand why I can no longer get the file to reflect the formatting that I
have chosen and re-chosen in the appropriate boxes for fonts and margins.
The whole file has taken on a strange character that seems impervious to any
influence I have been able to bring to bear on it.
 
I did find A4/Letter resizing selected in a drop down box, but unchecking it
did not make any difference. The only way I can get the document to print
out in the font size and with the margins selected in one file is to copy it
to another file in which the same font style and size and the same margins
have been chosen. Then I can get what I want, and the result is a letter
with a normal layout, not scrunched up toward the top left side of the page
with a much larger margin than I chose to the right and a much smaller
typeface than I chose in either file. This is not the first file with which
I have had this sort of trouble, and I would like to be able to repair the
damaged files instead of having to copy letters to different files to make it
possible to print them in standard layout.
 
It is true that one of the files with which I have been having trouble is one
into which I copied a webpage in which I had written a letter. I had not
previously separated that page in the file from other pages by inserting
breaks. However, inserting breaks still does not result in the text
spreading out to the margins I had chosen.
 
The reason I asked about section breaks is that if they are included in the
pasted material, they bring their document-level formatting with them. If
it's a question of "spreading out," then most likely you have lines ending
in line breaks. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/CleanWebText.htm

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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RoughRiderBill said:
It is true that one of the files with which I have been having trouble is one
into which I copied a webpage in which I had written a letter. I had not
previously separated that page in the file from other pages by inserting
breaks. However, inserting breaks still does not result in the text
spreading out to the margins I had chosen.
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G'day "RoughRiderBill" <[email protected]>,

You can reset paragraph formatting with Crtl+Q I think. I usually opt
for the very hard-core (it wipes all character formatting like bold,
italics etc) ctrl+space because then I know I have got rid of a LOT of
junk and what I apply next won't be as mangled.

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