Sarah Ripley

That's a good idea too. Thanks

Oh! I didn't know about that! Thank you That's does sound quicker. Will do that next time.

I'd guess there was something very odd going on. Some of the text in the docx file was copied from a Pages document. Bizarrely enough, there seemed to be an 'invisible' image carried over with it! What I mean by that, is the thumb nail for the docx file showed a picture (that WAS in the Pages file) but when the DocX file was opened - no image to be seen! Also, my number paragraphs were strangely formatted too. So, I'd guess that there was some other rogue formatting hiding in the docx file along with that image - all carried over from the Pages doc. To fix it I cut/pasted all my text from the original docx file I wanted to use, into a NEW docx file, saved then put it into Publisher - and, bingo, it all worked after that. No more hidden images or weird formatting. I think it was swapping between word processing apps on my Mac that threw a spanner in the works. So, all sorted now (I hope!!)

To be honest, I got so frustrated with it I junked it and started again. All seems absolutely fine this time round!!! Thank you for your time :-)

Ok, I have 'unhidden' the special characters. Here's what I see... a lot of nothing :-( Thanks for looking at this for me!

Hi there. I'm just starting with Publisher; not much experience in this type of software so i'm assuming I've stuffed up somewhere. I 'placed' text from a .docx into my publisher doc. The docx was all formatted with headings etc but when it went into my text boxes I've got some very weird spacing between paragraphs! the text flows to the end of the page, and then in *some* (but not all) follow on pages the text starts randomly down the next text box. It's not always at the same insertion point - can be anything from quite near the top to 3/4 of the way down the box. Anybody got any ideas? Thank you :-)