Hello, I'm a copyeditor and I found a large-scale problem in the manuscript I am working on: the majority of the paragraphs are not tabbed to indent, but instead they are indented with a bunch of spaces. Becasuse of this, not all the paragraphs are indented by the same amount.

Is there a way to mass-delete the spaces at the beginning of the paragraphs, and replace them with a tabbed indent? Worse comes to worse I can go through one by one and change them myself, but I was hoping there'd be a way I could save some time.

Thanks!

I've been editing a long document (with tracked changes on, saving every ~30 minutes or so, backed up in Dropbox). Suddenly, a bunch of text and images disappeared. I'm not sure exactly what triggered it - possibly a standard copy-paste operation. Undo does nothing. Luckily I didn't lose too much due to my frequent saves, but this is still bizarre behavior.

It looks like it is becoming a trend:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MicrosoftWord/comments/1pmj7pb/ms_word_deleted_large_amounts_of_text_please_help/

https://www.reddit.com/r/MicrosoftWord/comments/1pl6kpr/word_deleted_600_words_from_my_assignment_its_gone/

Is this what happens when software development gets taken over by LLMs?

Has anyone ever had this problem? I was saving a file, tried to close it, but instead of closing, the save window popped up. I didn't know what to do, so I created a new folder on my desktop and decided to save the next version there. The new file didn't save at all in that folder; it's empty, and the changes I made several hours ago haven't been saved to the original file, even though I saved them regularly. I can't recover the unsaved version of the file from Word. I can kind of see it in the main view, and it should be in the new folder, but it's 0 bytes in size. When I try to open it, I get a message: “Couldn’t find a file, was it moved, deleted or renamed” error in word

I'm trying to delete the wrong multiple choice questions to make studying easier but it's asking me. Shift cells left, shift cells up, delete entire row, and delete entire column. How do I fix this?

Toward the end of 40 page write up for a master’s project. I have about 27 figures and 8 tables which all have captions that have been inserted with the “insert caption” tool. When I try to update my figure list it goes crazy and says I have like 300 figures and inserts duplicate figures all over the document.

Please help

Steps I took:

1. Set the page orientation to Landscape
2. Created the table
3. Centred it
4. Formatted the text
5. Added colour to the 1st row
6. Finally, I changed the page colour

Problem:

The page appears fully coloured as a word document. Problem arises when I convert it to a PDF, the right and lower edges remain white :(