I post a so few starting threads myself I had to remember how to make one.
OK...
Blank document.
If I double click anywhere on the visible page Word now automatically makes paragraph marks, AND tabs to get to wherever I have pointed the cursor. Say I point near the botton and the middle (horizontally) - Word fills the pages with paragraph marks and one tab to put the cursor there. I double click higher up - Word REMOVES any paragraph marks/tabs past the new location, and has the "appropriate" paragraphs/tabs to put the cursor to the new location.
It has never done this before (that I recall), I don't think I have changed anything, I have checked for viruses...although I still wondering in that direction.
As a strange twist...a VBA procedure that simply gives a messagebox with the paragraph count:[vba]Msgbox ActiveDocument.Paragraphs.Count[/vba]used with akeyboard shortcut gives the "correct" number of paragraphs.
I double click half way down (there abouts), a bunch of paragraph marks appear. I press Alt-P to fire the paragraph count procedure. It displays "23". However, as soon as I press OK on the messagebox ....all the paragraphs disappear and the document reverts back to what it should be...the single paragraph mark at the top. Remember I have put NO text in this document.
I double click half way down (there abouts), a bunch of paragraph marks appear. I double click just a couple of lines down from the top...all the paragraph marks after the "new location" are removed. With the appropriate number needed to get to the new location. Paragraph procedure returns appropriate number.
This is very strange, and annoying.
Oh, and it only does this on a page by page basis. If I make page breaks with no paragraph marks, then do the double click thing...it does the fill up of paragraph marks on that page only.
I have removed all normal.dot(s) from the machine. It still is doing this.
Is this something Word has done for a while and I just never noticed before? I have no recollection of this behaviour before.