Problem with text pasted from Word

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Hi Scriveners!

I have a part that I pasted from Word that is giving me a lot of problem. It was at first a numbered list that I pasted from Word but after adding text I removed the numbers. There is one chunk that is acting very weird though. Whenever I hit the backspace key (wherever in the text) the whole section disappears!

Is there someone who knows if there’s a way of deleting formatting in Scrivener, which I think is the problem? This is all very irritating because I always need to keep an eye on that section because sometimes it also disappears when I’m formatting text higher up in the text!

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Lists from Word can indeed be a bit of a pain. In most cases, the best way to get rid of them is to select the relevant text (maybe even all of it) and then use the Format/Lists/None menu command.

For general formatting tips, such as stripping out format or normalising text, refer to our knowledge base article, How do I fix or convert formatting in my project.