Text alignment problem when indexing

Question

When I'm indexing a large document and I mark an entry, the index sometimes aligns the whole paragraph to the right. I want the formatting to remain 'justified' but it changes every time. How do I do this? Is there a way to stop the {XE index} infix from realigning my paragraphs?

I also have been seeing some big grey boxes appearing in the text when I mark entries for the index. This may be related to the fact that I converted this word document from a pdf using Acrobat?

Thanks,

Answer 1

Dear cpat_659,

Good day! Thank you for posting to Microsoft Community. We are happy to help you.

As per your description, it seems that you are having issue with text alignment in Word for Mac when indexing.

If the understanding above is right, to help you better and for the further troubleshoot, we would like to collect more detailed information you're experiencing so that we can have a further investigation:

1. Would you please share some screenshots of the issue encountered with us?
2. Does this happen to all files or the specific file? Will the same issue occur if you copy the content to a new Word file?
3. If you are willing, please share a sample file for us to do test. You may upload the file to cloud such as OneDrive and share the "Anyone" link here.
4. Please also share your Word version by navigating to Word > About Word and take a screenshot.

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Rhoda | Microsoft Community Moderator