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Today I received a discourse from a friend in the USA, not written by himself as a word document, but an "internet thing" that he had just forwarded.

I read it normally on my iPad, but was then called by Mrs. ExS to ... come look at this, on her iMac computer, and then I discovered also on my PC.
the
text
was
in
a
vertical
line
down
the
middle
of
the
page
like
this.

Nothing we have discovered will change it to a normal, readable format again.

WTF ?

P.s. I wrote it here down the middle of the page, as we had received it, but this application has shifted what I wrote to the left hand margin.

Solution is probably to cut and paste it into a word document and then clear or remove formatting.

Yep. The formats from previous 'puters can be really annoying. Sometimes copying for a second time, and 'remove all formatting' does the trick. Or 'Save as' something different from the current one, and 'remove all formatting', etc...

I still use Word 2003 on me old XP (all tweaked the way I like it so can't be buggered upgrading, if any) but save in PDF if it has to be emailed or 'sapped to anyone. Comes out the other end ok.

Have you tried select all, paragraph align left?

I frequently receive documents that my augmented XP PC can't open but my smartphone can, and not only that but my smartphone can reformat them as .pdf or .rtf and send* them to my PC in openable form.

* And no doubt also to Peking as it's a Huawei.