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Formatting abruptly changed - DJ


Posted: Feb 03, 2010

There probably have been answers to my question out here before, but does anyone know what causes the formatting in an EditScript document of which I am either editing or transcribing?  It tabs, bolds, changes font sizes, and messes up the spacing between lines.....things I did not manually do myself.  Is there something I should be changing on my RTF? Or is it something else?  Seems like I may have seen something about that, but I can't find it in my manual (which doesn't seem to be very helpful to me anyway!).

You need to contact your place of work - Listening in

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I have not seen anything like this on these boards and it is definitely not something that should happen, has never with me and I have used for some years now.

How to get formatting back, I think. - See message.

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If I remember right, when that happens, go to your toolbar where it shows what font style you have, click on the drop-down menu, and click on clear formatting; it brings you back to the original format.


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