So I'm at work. I receive this document from an unknown source, having gone through God only knows how many hands before it gets to me. Par for the course, right?
They sent it to us because "the formatting was corrupted." Normally, this just means that they don't know what styles are, but this... this is different. The issue with the document is that (for the first page at least) putting the cursor anywhere and messing with the indentation settings would change the entire fucking page. Needless to say, we were all fairly baffled.
It occurred to me eventually to wonder whether there was something wrong with the way the paragraphs were being done, but checking the formatting through Reveal Formatting revealed nothing. What's interesting, however, is that trying to do a global replace of paragraph marks with paragraph marks, Word thinks there's only 6. That's quite fascinating, considering the document is 12 pages long and has what appears to be closer to 50. Or more, I can't eyeball numbers for shit.
So AnandTech, I ask you: what looks like a paragraph symbol (when you have show formatting marks enabled), acts like a paragraph symbol, but isn't one?
Thanks in advance for your help, and feel free to tell me if anything was unclear. This has kind of broken my brain.
They sent it to us because "the formatting was corrupted." Normally, this just means that they don't know what styles are, but this... this is different. The issue with the document is that (for the first page at least) putting the cursor anywhere and messing with the indentation settings would change the entire fucking page. Needless to say, we were all fairly baffled.
It occurred to me eventually to wonder whether there was something wrong with the way the paragraphs were being done, but checking the formatting through Reveal Formatting revealed nothing. What's interesting, however, is that trying to do a global replace of paragraph marks with paragraph marks, Word thinks there's only 6. That's quite fascinating, considering the document is 12 pages long and has what appears to be closer to 50. Or more, I can't eyeball numbers for shit.
So AnandTech, I ask you: what looks like a paragraph symbol (when you have show formatting marks enabled), acts like a paragraph symbol, but isn't one?
Thanks in advance for your help, and feel free to tell me if anything was unclear. This has kind of broken my brain.
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