[LMB] AKICOTL: OT: Word help, pretty please???

[Tzivia Adler]

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From: "Meg Justus" <megj at nwlink.com>
To: "Bujold" <lois-bujold at lists.herald.co.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 12:35 AM
Subject: [LMB] AKICOTL: OT: Word help, pretty please???


> Okay.  I should know how to do this.  I made the mistake of typing three 
> ###s as a divider between sections in a document, and when I did, Word 
> created this big thick line instead of just leaving my three ###s like I 
> wanted.  How do I get rid of this big thick line and what can I use in the 
> way of a symbol in this manner that will stay the way I typed it without 
> my having to backspace immediately? (I use an Alphasmart which is 
> basically a portable keyboard emulator -- stopping in the middle of an 
> upload to backspace is not an option)  Asterisks are booby-trapped the 
> same way, only with a different kind of line.  I'm way past the point 
> where I can backspace right after they've been typed.  No form of deleting 
> and/or cutting is making it go away.
>
> Help?  Word help, is, of course, no help at all.
>
> Megaera
> who understands that Word is the devil -- it's also what I've got to work 
> with right now
> -- 
word may be the devil, but its a devil that gave me a job opportunity, so 
don't knock it too hard please?  although teaching a bunch of fifteen year 
olds how to use the thing is not so great.....   teaching adults is much 
easier.  (maybe bec. their spending their own money to come to class, not 
their parents...)

a lot of ppl explained how to get rid of hte ### triple line, but it seems 
to me that you also need to keep your section breaks.  control+z doesn't 
help for that, or if as you say you have an uploaded file that needs to be 
fixed.

if you use the task pane (get it from the view menu) to see the styles and 
formatting, you'll see that one should be paragraph-style + border.

if you click the down arrow there, you can select all instances of this syle 
border.  then change each one to 'no border' and put in either an actual 
section break*
or
a symbol for breaks - i always use zzzz bec it never ever comes up in 
standard typing.  if you use a symbol, you can later use find and replace 
and add section breaks then, there is actually a special character for page 
breaks.

hope this helps.

ziviya, gen-u-wine word processing teacher