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September 27

Big trouble with MS Word

I have an HP Pavilion with Windows 10 on it. I also have MS Office which I use mostly for editing, that is I use only MS Word. It worked very well until about 2 month ago. I think there was an update and after the update I noticed multiple changes and the application became unusable. When I open files developed on MS Word before the upgrade, I see that the written text is now arranged in a narrow column centered in the middle of the page. The lines of text thus appear to be unnaturally short. The spaces between the lines are now in fact double spaces. There is no way to change this format with any manipulations at the top of the page where the panel with all the controls is located. If I highlight the Stiles square with "No spacing." the text I enter appears with double spacing, and also there are spaces between individual letters. The application does not allow me to change anything. It does not respond. When I copied a test line written in MS Word page this way and pasted it here to demonstrate, all the spaces shrank and the text appeared to be normal. What is this?

I uninstall MS Office and installed it again twice. It did not change anything. Why does it behave this way? AboutFace 22 (talk) 16:20, 27 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I suggest you first try exiting word and renaming the normal.dot and/or normal.dotm files. A web search for "word how do i delete normal.dot" will give more details.195.50.139.86 (talk) 06:28, 28 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]