MS Word document reformats itself after Save

One of the perenial problems I find with MS WORD (I use Word 2000) is that even in a reasonably short document, when it is re-opened I often find that although the narrative is still all in sequence, irregular spaces have developed with the result that the whole document has to be checked to ensure lines are joined up, paragraphs only have a one line space, chapters start on correct page as indexed and drawings often have to be re-spaced. Since one had to save it before closing down one cannot be accused of not doing this! Is there any answer to this problem or is this one of the reasons why Acrobat was developed?

Kind regards,
Pat

 

Pat, I had a similar problem with a Word 2000 document a while ago. When I formated it to how I wanted then saved and closed and then re-opened the formating had changed, i.e. bolding, bullett's, indent's etc. I was using a base document drafted by someone else so the formating was already there. It was annoying to say the least to have to redo each time. I can't remember exactly how I fixed it but I think it had something to do with the "Style ". With your document open go to Format>Style and see what is hightlited in the style dropdown list. If you use "Normal" or "Normal Indent" you should be fairly safe.

The above may not be the fix you need but may point you in the right direction.

If I think of anything else will post.

 

Thankyou all for the suggestions.
John I had nothing listed under styles and have never used one being interested only in Word restoring the original document, warts and all!

Pete I found 3 Normal.dot files under Windows. All were Word documents and deleting them made no difference. I have to say a long document of 150 pages is very variable in its changes. Occasionally it appears as it was previously Saved but it is the "variable-ness" which makes it untrustworthy so it always needs careful checking throughout before printing!

Christer I use Normal Times Roman throughout which is listed as a True type font.

Those are the answers I intended giving. However at last I have found the reason for 90% of my particular problems most of which are caused by coming to the end of a chapter/section and ready to start another one on a new page; or more specifically stated, the need to start a new page for whatever reason which will result in leaving a space of anything from 1 line up to a whole page of lines. The answer is simple, "create a manual page break ". To do this either click Insert menu> Break... or simply press Ctrl+Enter. Now obviously Word understands and the cursor immediately jumps to the next page and won't try to be helpful when you are not looking and fill in the deliberate space you left!

It still does not explain the unwanted spaces which I got but on reflection these were few and far between and once corrected they never occurred in the same place twice. Incidentally typing 'Unwanted Spaces' into 'Word Helps Answer Wizard' comes up with 20 different reasons for this to occur.

Kind regards,
Pat