I'm guessing it's just the top margin, which is reasonable. Although I do
use Next Page breaks between chapters in books, I don't actually change the
top margin (by adding space to the First Page Header). I usually use a
Chapter Number or Chapter Title (whichever comes first) style with enough
Space Before to drop it the desired amount. In some cases where the depth of
the chapter number and title and any epigraph that may follow will vary, I
put the whole thing in a single (borderless) table cell set to an exact
height so that the first line of Body Text (which will start below the
table) will appear at the same point on the first page of each chapter.
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"Daiya Mitchell" wrote in message
.. .
How interesting. What insanity.
For the cover page--use a Next Page Section Break between the cover page
and
the next page, then set margins for only that section. But you don't
really
want a Next Page Section Break in the middle of a stream of text if you
can
avoid it.
Which margins need to be 2" on the first page of each chapter? If just
the
top and bottom margins, you can use a Different First Page Header and put
extra space in it.
If side margins also, you could manually add indentation to the text on
the
first page of the each chapter. Maybe, I'm less sure about that one.
These are two very useful links for thesis-type formatting questions:
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...rontMatter.htm
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/HeaderFooter.htm
Which would explain most of how to do what I suggested. However, others
may
come along with better suggestions.
On 5/11/05 9:29 AM, "Confused Grad Student" wrote:
Ok. I have to format my thesis for turning it into the graduate school.
They are VERY particular about margins, which must be 2" on the first
page of
each chapter, and 2" on the cover page, Then 1" for the remaining pages.
How do I format the margins differently for different pages?? I Can get
it
to 2" from the top on the first two pages, but then the page break does
not
work going from the 2nd to third pages!! HELP!!
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