I say that everything was fine when I was working with the word processing program, but that I did have some trouble formatting one of my files. "To format" means to change the appearance of a document, usually by changing the spacing between the lines, or changing the size and style of the text, perhaps adding a border or a line around the paper. For the first page of the report, some people like to format the title so that it's in the middle of the page, for example. I was formatting my report when I started having computer problems.