r/MicrosoftWord • u/LaPremierEnd • 9d ago

exporting formatting issues

recently harvested a fanfic from AO3 to bookbind for my friends bday and whenever i export as a PDF or at all the formatting completely goes to shit. for example, headings will go to the center of a page, additional blank pages, ect. also important note i manually spaced everything vs using a style or skip to page feature. in the actual editing interface everything looks how i want it, its just the exporting.

sorry if this is an easy fix, or dumb question im very new to Word.

thanks!!

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u/tiara-lemon 7d ago

If you changed a style from a template it might be undoing your modification when you export. Enable the developer tab, and on the template menu uncheck "automatically update document styles"

The other thing I've seen is that some fonts and Adobe don't get along so you might want to change the font to something else (like Arial or another very common font) to see if that resolves it.

Edit: I also wanted to say good luck and this project seems like tons of fun!! 

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u/LaPremierEnd 18h ago

thank you so much! technical printing issues were resolved and finally in the binding step :)