Great information, Charles! This will save me so much time; I just
haven't the patience to wade through a huge amount of data to find
exactly what I need. Especially when I don't even know what I'm looking
for in the first place. Thank you!
Charles Kenyon wrote:
You don't need to learn it all, but styles are really at the heart of
how
Word works. http://addbalance.com/usersguide/styles.htm
http://addbalance.com/usersguide/basic_formatting.htm.
--
Charles Kenyon
Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word
Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide
See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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"MamaCats" wrote in message
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Thanks so much, Jezebel! That seems to have solved the problem. I
didn't know just what a page break was before. Guess if I'm going
to be
using Word for more than simple letters, I'm going to have to take
the
time to go through a tutorial, even if I won't use 95% of it.
Again, thanks for saving my sanity!
Jezebel wrote:
Don't use empty paragraphs for formatting. There are simpler and
better
ways. If your headings should start a new page, apply a heading
style
(such
as "Heading 1") and define that style as 'Page break before'. The
more
disciplined your are with the use of named styles, the easier is
your
task
ever more.
"MamaCats" wrote in message
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I'm formatting stories to print for binding. I like the chapter
heads
to be at the top of the page, so I hit Enter until the heading
goes to
the next page top. I've done several dozen successfully using
this
method. Yesterday, I needed to add a couple of blank pages to
the
beginning (so there would be a blank sheet at the start of the
text
block), so I pressed Enter above the title until there were two
blank
pages before the title page. Now, when I try to move the chapter
heads
down to the next page, it skips down two inches. If I try to
delete
spaces to bring it up to the top of the page, it just skips up
to
the
previous page. It's like those two inches don't exist. What's
more
confusing, it doesn't always do this, and sometimes it skips
half a
page. I've tried deleting that file and starting over, but now
it's
doing it on every file I start to edit. I don't even know the
right
question to start looking for the answer!