MS Word strikes again

[polaris93]

I've been working on and off for hours filling out various parts of Section 4 of Part 2 of Lesson III of the course notes for my Qaballah and Tarot course. Over a period of about two hours, I carefully, painstakingly filled in footnote after footnote having to do with the Great Old Ones of Lovecraft's Mythos universe, several single-spaced pages

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[hannahsarah]

"Mercury goes retrograde tomorrow."

Well, that explains the migraine that's been slowly creeping up on me since Monday.

How long do I need to hide before it's over? The back of my walk in closet is looking really inviting right about now.

[polaris93]

Mercury goes direct September 12. :-)

[brezhnev]

There should be options to turn off automatic formatting. Or if you don't want to turn it off and it becomes annoying, you could type:
-- --
...and erase the space, then copy/paste as needed. It's a pain, but still...

[polaris93]

There should be options to turn off automatic formatting.

I need the automatic formatting. I just really don't need Word to decide to get creative about it. :-[=[ Hey, was that Bill Gates I just saw walk by here? Where's my baseball bat, guys?

Or if you don't want to turn it off and it becomes annoying, you could type:
-- --
...and erase the space, then copy/paste as needed. It's a pain, but still...

An easier way is to make sure there are about five consecutive blank lines, type "--- . . ." all the way out to the right-hand margin, then NOT hit ENTER, just lift the mouse and gently place it a line or two below the line of dashes, and start writing again. Ordinarily, I do hit ENTER to get that nice long solid line marking a sidebar boundary, but when Word screws up like it did last night, maybe I should go with the dashes. {grrrrrr}