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HELP! Word won't save my formatted text--opens unformatted every time.
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<blockquote data-quote="MelyndianaJones" data-source="post: 1245038" data-attributes="member: 203239"><p>I love Pages. However, I am writing my dissertation and my committee needs this monster document in Word, so here I am. I have Word 2010 for mac. And, I have spent hours and hours trying to figure out what to click, unclick, reset, or switch to make this program behave. </p><p></p><p>I'm a smart girl, but every single time I save my document and close it, all formatting is lost--all tabs, all italics, etc. Since this is a dissertation it has to be in a certain format and there are a lot of tabs and heading styles. I don't know whether to cry or scream. It doesn't matter whether I save it as a doc file or docx. Same thing. When I re-open the file it will show the tracked changes as the complete opposite of what I had. For instance--if the heading was centered it will show a tracked change that I made it left-justified at the time I closed the file. (So if I hit the "reject" X, it will go back to the center...most of the time.) </p><p></p><p>Oh! And the headers--I have to reset the headers every ten (five?) minutes. They will suddenly change from 1 inch margins on the top to 3 or 4 inches--just out of nowhere. </p><p></p><p>Does anyone know what on earth is going on? I am about to have to hang it up and type this on a PC. (I am desperate.) Thanks for any suggestions!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MelyndianaJones, post: 1245038, member: 203239"] I love Pages. However, I am writing my dissertation and my committee needs this monster document in Word, so here I am. I have Word 2010 for mac. And, I have spent hours and hours trying to figure out what to click, unclick, reset, or switch to make this program behave. I'm a smart girl, but every single time I save my document and close it, all formatting is lost--all tabs, all italics, etc. Since this is a dissertation it has to be in a certain format and there are a lot of tabs and heading styles. I don't know whether to cry or scream. It doesn't matter whether I save it as a doc file or docx. Same thing. When I re-open the file it will show the tracked changes as the complete opposite of what I had. For instance--if the heading was centered it will show a tracked change that I made it left-justified at the time I closed the file. (So if I hit the "reject" X, it will go back to the center...most of the time.) Oh! And the headers--I have to reset the headers every ten (five?) minutes. They will suddenly change from 1 inch margins on the top to 3 or 4 inches--just out of nowhere. Does anyone know what on earth is going on? I am about to have to hang it up and type this on a PC. (I am desperate.) Thanks for any suggestions! [/QUOTE]
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