When you type a character it starts on a new line

[ZAC]

When a user types a and then tries to type b it automatically goes to the
next line.

ex: i want to spell "hello" it would come out like this.
h
e
l
l
o

anyone have any idea as to why this is happening?

 

[Jay Freedman]

Typically that happens because the right indent of the current paragraph is
set to a large number, so that there's room for only one character between
the left margin and the indented right margin.

If it happens only in new documents, it's probably direct formatting applied
to the single empty paragraph mark in the Normal.dot template. It could also
be part of the Normal style in that template. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/BlankDocNotBlank.htm for the procedure
to fix it.

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[ZAC]

Thanks I'll look and check that out. It was aparanlty from a template that
the user copied over. They say it looked fine and then when they went to
print it did the letters over one another but I'll look into the answer you
gave me. Thanks for the feedback.

 

[Jay Freedman]

If it's a print-time thing, then it's more likely that there's a problem
with the printer driver. Especially HP seems to have trouble with that. You
can try reinstalling the driver, or checking the manufacturer's web site for
an update.