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FineReader sometimes doesn't split pages. It's very rare, but it happens. So you'll need to click the "Edit Image" button and split it from there.

Blocks of text do not remain aligned only if you export as "Exact Copy". This happens because the scanned material isn't properly aligned either; some pages will be scanned lower on the glass window, some will be higher(*). But if you export to .docx as "Formatted Text", the text will be aligned to the margins and page size of your choosing.

If some lines don't fit the set margin and continue on the next line, using macros would save a lot of time. Instead of editing each one by going through the laborious task of right clicking, selecting Font, selecting Advanced, and adding 0.05 font spacing increments (0.05, 0.1, 0.15, 0.2, etc) for dozens or perhaps hundreds of such lines, you simply set up macros to activate when you press a key combination (or a "hotkey").

My advice is if that you're gonna use Word, you may as well learn how to use it properly. There are some very good tutorials from TotalTraining, Lynda.com, etc.


* If you really fancy "Exact Copy", you could use Scan Tailor to align them before importing into FineReader. For OCR-ing it's recommended that you output to grayscale instead of black and white for better accuracy (FineReader has it's own filtering method). Personally I think that "Exact Copy" isn't worth it. It produces a lot of "fixed objects" and outputting as tagged PDF would be useless.