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need to fix a problem when applying a style to a selected paragraph !!!
Lenka_Kerumova When I do this method, it changes all the pages and it goes wrong
Hello Mohamed_1995 ,
if it does as you say, than your paragraphs are NOT paragraphs.
Your lines are most likely ended by a line-break, hence making your document one huge paragraph.
A paragraph begins by first character after a paragraph mark, and ends with a paragraph mark -
¶.
A single line with text is not a paragraph if it doesn't end with a paragraph mark.
Check your document.
Lenka_Kerumova so, how can I break the huge paragraph to small ones?
Hello Mohamed_1995 ,
it depends on how your text is broken. For that we need to see a printscreen of the text with the non-printing characters on.
If your lines are broken by line breaks, then the fix is easy: Use Find and Replace (Ctrl+H). Put the line break (^l) into Find and put the paragraph (^p) into Replace.
This will replace all line breaks with paragraph marks.
If you find yourself with extra paragraphs (= empty lines) and you don't want that, open again Find and Replace, put two paragraphs (^p^p) into Find and put one paragraph (^p) into Replace. This will search for two paragraph marks and replace them with one, hence deleting the extra line.
Hope this helps.
Pressing the Enter key creates a paragraph in Word. See also https://shaunakelly.com/word/concepts/rulesfortyping.html.
Display nonprinting marks to see exactly what you are dealing with. You can click the ¶ icon on the Home tab to display these marks, and you'll see that each paragraph ends with a pilcrow, ¶.
