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end of page autoformatting skips lines
This drives me absolutley crazy! I have Word 2003. At the bottom of pages,
the autoformat will leave big gaps if it decides that lines from a paragraph would be lonely at the bottom by themselves while the rest of the paragraph is on the next page. For example, I'm coming to the end of a page and type out a paragraph 4 lines long. Rather than leaving 2 lines on this page and putting 2 on the next, the damn thing pushes the whole paragraph onto the next page, thus leaving this 2-line blank spot at the bottom of a page. It looks terrible and gives me formatting nightmares. The end of one page looks like the end of the whole document because there's a huge empty space at the bottom. How do I tell this damn program that I know more about what I want than it does?! THANKS |
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end of page autoformatting skips lines
If it is really pushing four lines to the next page when there is room for
two, then possibly the paragraph is formatted as "Keep lines together" (Format | Paragraph | Line and Page Breaks). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Crazy_Eyed_J" wrote in message ... This drives me absolutley crazy! I have Word 2003. At the bottom of pages, the autoformat will leave big gaps if it decides that lines from a paragraph would be lonely at the bottom by themselves while the rest of the paragraph is on the next page. For example, I'm coming to the end of a page and type out a paragraph 4 lines long. Rather than leaving 2 lines on this page and putting 2 on the next, the damn thing pushes the whole paragraph onto the next page, thus leaving this 2-line blank spot at the bottom of a page. It looks terrible and gives me formatting nightmares. The end of one page looks like the end of the whole document because there's a huge empty space at the bottom. How do I tell this damn program that I know more about what I want than it does?! THANKS |
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end of page autoformatting skips lines
Try turning off widow and orphan control (found on the line and page breaks
tab of the paragraph dialog). PamC Crazy_Eyed_J wrote: This drives me absolutley crazy! I have Word 2003. At the bottom of pages, the autoformat will leave big gaps if it decides that lines from a paragraph would be lonely at the bottom by themselves while the rest of the paragraph is on the next page. For example, I'm coming to the end of a page and type out a paragraph 4 lines long. Rather than leaving 2 lines on this page and putting 2 on the next, the damn thing pushes the whole paragraph onto the next page, thus leaving this 2-line blank spot at the bottom of a page. It looks terrible and gives me formatting nightmares. The end of one page looks like the end of the whole document because there's a huge empty space at the bottom. How do I tell this damn program that I know more about what I want than it does?! THANKS -- Message posted via http://www.officekb.com |
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