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
(e-mail address removed), "SuzySushi"
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?