How do you delete a line created by three asterisks (used as a scene break) and a return? I can't delete the stupid thing. I know it's some sort of useless paragraph border but that doesn't help, unfortunately.
If you backspace or undo immediately after it happens, it'll undo it. If there's one of those "lightning-bolt" boxes that pops up when it does it, you can instruct it not to do so again. You could probably find a way to make it cut that out in your Preferences, too, I think. Might have to poke around. I have Word for Mac, though, so I'm not sure everything applies the same way.
Hit enter to put a few carriage returns before the unwanted line, and put a few carriage returns after it. Then block-select beginning two or three lines before the unwanted line, until one or two lines after, and cut or delete. That *should* wipe out the unwanted line. Then you can trim things to your taste.
And if you know it's coming, hitting Ctrl-Z immediately after the stars get converted into a line will revert to the stars.
And like said, there *should* be a lightning-bolt icon to turn that option off.
Yeah, I hate that. What I do is highlight the line plus the space above it and hit delete. And remember to NEVER use 3 asterisks again! If that doesn't work, it might be the version of Word you're using. I may have forgotten exactly how I did it.
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Which is why I use ^* instead when I need a paragraph break. But the best thing I ever did (computer-wise) Is switch from a PC to a Mac!
Two thoughts. I think it's probably treating it as a paragraph border, which sometimes work kind of funny. I've had success by highlighting the text paragraphs immediately preceeding and following it, and then going into the paragraph options menu, and setting them to "No border".
The other thing to note is that you can work in open office, and then just save the file in MS Word format when you're done. My experience there has been that unless you're doing obscure things with formatting or embedding fonts, the compatibility feature works perfectly. I'd be hesitant about a resume with fancy things like bulleted paragraphs, but for a MS it should be just fine.
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Hit enter to put a few carriage returns before the unwanted line, and put a few carriage returns after it. Then block-select beginning two or three lines before the unwanted line, until one or two lines after, and cut or delete. That *should* wipe out the unwanted line. Then you can trim things to your taste.
And if you know it's coming, hitting Ctrl-Z immediately after the stars get converted into a line will revert to the stars.
And like said, there *should* be a lightning-bolt icon to turn that option off.
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Which is why I use ^* instead when I need a paragraph break. But the best thing I ever did (computer-wise) Is switch from a PC to a Mac!
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The other thing to note is that you can work in open office, and then just save the file in MS Word format when you're done. My experience there has been that unless you're doing obscure things with formatting or embedding fonts, the compatibility feature works perfectly. I'd be hesitant about a resume with fancy things like bulleted paragraphs, but for a MS it should be just fine.
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