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MS Word - words get cut in half at the end of line

I am doing English editing of a Word document written in Korean and then translated by someone. I am using MS Word 2011 for Mac. I have to edit about 60 of these documents, each is about four pages.


I edited about eight of them without any problems of formatting.


Then with the last four of them, I noticed that the words at the end of the line would get cut in half with one half of the word appearing at the end of one line, and the second half of the word appearing at the beginning of the next line.


I don't know how to fix this.


The documents have macro with them. Could that be the problem? Before, I was asked whether I wanted to turn on macros or not, and I chose "No" initially, and then I switched to "Yes". Now even though I went into preferences and chose "Warn me before opening macros", the documents open without this opening message.


I don't know what to do. I know Hangeul (Korean) is written so that it doesn't matter whether words get chopped in half and the original document was written on MS Word for Koreans (and has Korean fonts and things like that).


But the person who sent me the original document is not available and besides can't speak English so I can't ask her about this.


It might not have anything to do with macros. I remember vaguely a while ago I had the same problem and I fixed it using some simple measure but I can't remember what I did.


I browsed the web looking for solutions but have not found any.

MBA v 3.2, 256GB SSD, 2.13GHz, 4GB-OTHER, Other OS, 10.6.8

Posted on Jul 14, 2012 3:50 AM

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Jul 14, 2012 3:59 AM in response to applecore_eater

You would be better of on an MSWord support site, this isn't a mac issue.


That said, look for the command that says 'show invisibles' - it should show you if there are any hidden elements like hard returns at the end of all the lines.


If so, select all the text, and try 'control-space' to remove all formatting (this works in Word 2008, but I don't know about 2011).

Jul 14, 2012 4:28 AM in response to applecore_eater

I noticed this formatting problem is present in lists but not all lists.


If the list is

1.

2.

3.


there is no problem


When the list is


i.

ii.

iii.


there is a problem.


When the list is


A.

B.

C.


there is NO problem.


When the list is


There IS a problem.


I am making these lists using the list function in Word as well as the indenting function. I don't have a choice as the document already came with these lists.


So I think this is a bug in MS Word because the words don't get chopped in half when the lists are a certain way but they do get chopped when the lists are in another way.


Words are chopped:


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Words are not chopped:


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Words are chopped:


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MS Word - words get cut in half at the end of line

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