On Mon, 2 Jan 2006 15:55:03 -0800, LMG
wrote:
I'd like to know the actual definitions of some of the terms in Microsoft
Word. For instance, what is the difference between a line break and just
pressing enter?

What is a section break? Are their any other related terms, and, if so, what
are their definitions.

For starters, go read
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Format...PrintChars.htm. That will
tell you what the breaks look like when you turn on nonprinting
characters, so you can recognize them in your documents.

The most basic one is the paragraph mark (¶), which you get by
pressing Enter. Each paragraph can have different values of any of the
settings in the Format Paragraph dialog and the Format Tabs
dialog.

A manual line break, which you get by pressing Shift+Enter, forces a
new line without starting a new paragraph. That means all the same
paragraph formatting settings take effect on both sides of the line
break.

A section break, shown by a double dotted line containing the words
"Section Break", creates a new section. Each section can have
different values of margins, page orientation, headers and footers,
and page numbering. There are four kinds of section breaks:
- Continuous, which doesn't start a new page
- Next Page, which starts a new page
- Odd Page and Even page, which start a page of that type
You insert these with the Insert Break dialog.

Besides these, there a

- Manual page break (Ctrl+Enter) forces a new page but not a new
section.
- Manual column break (Ctrl+Shift+Enter) forces a new column in
multicolumn (newspaper-style) text.
- Text-wrapping break, which is a bit obscure. See the description in
the NonPrintChars article.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
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