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Word Auto VBA Paragraph Formatting

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by lynnette

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Suddenly Word 2000 doesn't allow paragraph formatting. It was accidentally found that all documents, including any previously created, were being automatically formatted & showed a VBA heading for each line. There is no clue as to when or how this might have happened. Can it be corrected so that Word has full functionality again?

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by dklippert

The question is a little vague, but check the File>Open Files of Type. Make sure it does not show "Recover Text from Any File"
Under Format>Styles Modify. make sure that Automatically update is not checked.
Another clean up procedure is to locate and rename any "Normal.dot" you can find. There should be only one. Word will create a new one when it restarts.
Delte any ~*.* files. Word leaves shards wherever it opens a document. They start with a tilde (~).

by lynnette

Thanks for the fast response! The problem seems to have corrected itself after I renamed the Normal.dot & the new one was created.

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