Rogue paragraph with drop capital

[Greg]

Chapters of a document all begin with a paragraph led by a drop
capital. All have the same settings: Justified, Body text, Indents 0,
Special (none), Spacing Before 0 pt, all other spacing blank,
Widow/Orphan checked, Keep with next a gray check. The dropped capitals
show as Dropped, 3 lines, distance from text 0. All but one paragraph
print with the dropped capital aligned with the left margin. One
pararaph has the dropped capital indented half an inch.

Is there some other setting that can be coming into play with this
rogue paragraph?

 

[Guest]

Ha. Welcome to the wonderful world of the world's crappiest software. Sorry I
couldn't be of more help, other than to tell you to get FrameMaker
Phil

 

[Robert M. Franz (RMF)]

Hi Soccerman

Ha. Welcome to the wonderful world of the world's crappiest software. Sorry I
couldn't be of more help, other than to tell you to get FrameMaker

As soon as somebody starts spending development time on FM again, you
mean ...? ;-)

I would think there must be a (probably) invisible object in the drawing
layer which pushes stuff to the right. Hard to tell without seeing the
document. If you have the means, can you strip down the document
(containing, say, only 2 or 3 paragraphs with these DropCaps where one
is the "mean" one) and make it available on an FTP or Webserver?

HTH
Robert

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Greg,

Chapters of a document all begin with a paragraph led by a drop
capital. All have the same settings: Justified, Body text, Indents 0,
Special (none), Spacing Before 0 pt, all other spacing blank,
Widow/Orphan checked, Keep with next a gray check. The dropped capitals
show as Dropped, 3 lines, distance from text 0. All but one paragraph
print with the dropped capital aligned with the left margin. One
pararaph has the dropped capital indented half an inch.

Is there some other setting that can be coming into play with this
rogue paragraph?

A dropped capital is in reality a FRAME. If you click on the frame around
the letter, you should see a "Frame" entry in the Format menu. You can
check the settings in there, see if anything looks "wrong".

The only other thing that comes to mind would be something that might be
in the margin, such as a nofill-noline rectangle, "pushing" the letter
over.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[Greg]

Thanks for the input, Cindy. A frame or something in the margin seem
possibles. I couldn't find anything in the margin and the frame options
from Format / Frames only allowed Table of Contents and New Frames
Page.

Eventually solved the problem by copying the para to a new file and
copying it back to the document. Needed some juggling to get it quite
right. Still don't know what caused it, but the point is now moot.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

This is a different kind of frame. For help with troubleshooting, see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/UnaccountablyIndented.htm

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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