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I am trying to create an annotated bibliography that I can have word
automatically sort alphabetically. The trouble is that it recognizes the annotation as a seperate paragraph and does not keep it with the citation (obviously). Is there a way to do this that hasn't occured to me? I need a line of blank space between the citation and the annotation, but need a way to make word only reconize the first letter of the citation and ignore the first letter of the annotation when sorting the list alphabetically. I thought of making a table and putting each citation + annotation in its own column, but a) I need the table lines to be invisible and b) when I did that and sorted it with blank columns, it always put the citations at the bottom with the blank colums at the top, which is no good...the blank columns need to stay at the bottom for when I enter more citations. Thanks! |
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The idea of a borderless table is not a bad solution. But why do you need to
preserve blank rows? You can always add a new row to a table by just tabbing out of the last row. Another approach would be to assign an outline level (at least temporarily) to the citation style. When you view the bibliography in Outline view with Body Text hidden, you can sort the "headings," and the associated body text will follow. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "tablet user" wrote in message ... I am trying to create an annotated bibliography that I can have word automatically sort alphabetically. The trouble is that it recognizes the annotation as a seperate paragraph and does not keep it with the citation (obviously). Is there a way to do this that hasn't occured to me? I need a line of blank space between the citation and the annotation, but need a way to make word only reconize the first letter of the citation and ignore the first letter of the annotation when sorting the list alphabetically. I thought of making a table and putting each citation + annotation in its own column, but a) I need the table lines to be invisible and b) when I did that and sorted it with blank columns, it always put the citations at the bottom with the blank colums at the top, which is no good...the blank columns need to stay at the bottom for when I enter more citations. Thanks! |
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Good point...I guess I don't need to preserve the blank rows but can add them
as I go. So I think I'll do it that way although I can't figure out how to male invisible borders or what you called a "borderless table." Any suggestions? Thanks! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: The idea of a borderless table is not a bad solution. But why do you need to preserve blank rows? You can always add a new row to a table by just tabbing out of the last row. Another approach would be to assign an outline level (at least temporarily) to the citation style. When you view the bibliography in Outline view with Body Text hidden, you can sort the "headings," and the associated body text will follow. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "tablet user" wrote in message ... I am trying to create an annotated bibliography that I can have word automatically sort alphabetically. The trouble is that it recognizes the annotation as a seperate paragraph and does not keep it with the citation (obviously). Is there a way to do this that hasn't occured to me? I need a line of blank space between the citation and the annotation, but need a way to make word only reconize the first letter of the citation and ignore the first letter of the annotation when sorting the list alphabetically. I thought of making a table and putting each citation + annotation in its own column, but a) I need the table lines to be invisible and b) when I did that and sorted it with blank columns, it always put the citations at the bottom with the blank colums at the top, which is no good...the blank columns need to stay at the bottom for when I enter more citations. Thanks! |
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A quick way to remove borders from any table is to press Ctrl+Alt+U. Or you
can select the table and go to Format | Borders and Shading and choose None (or use the No Border button on the Borders flyout palette on the Formatting or Tables and Borders toolbar). If you don't want any tables in a given document to have borders, select Table Normal as the default Table AutoFormat for the document (or template): in the Table | Table AutoFormat dialog, choose Table Normal and then click Default... -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "tablet user" wrote in message news Good point...I guess I don't need to preserve the blank rows but can add them as I go. So I think I'll do it that way although I can't figure out how to male invisible borders or what you called a "borderless table." Any suggestions? Thanks! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: The idea of a borderless table is not a bad solution. But why do you need to preserve blank rows? You can always add a new row to a table by just tabbing out of the last row. Another approach would be to assign an outline level (at least temporarily) to the citation style. When you view the bibliography in Outline view with Body Text hidden, you can sort the "headings," and the associated body text will follow. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "tablet user" wrote in message ... I am trying to create an annotated bibliography that I can have word automatically sort alphabetically. The trouble is that it recognizes the annotation as a seperate paragraph and does not keep it with the citation (obviously). Is there a way to do this that hasn't occured to me? I need a line of blank space between the citation and the annotation, but need a way to make word only reconize the first letter of the citation and ignore the first letter of the annotation when sorting the list alphabetically. I thought of making a table and putting each citation + annotation in its own column, but a) I need the table lines to be invisible and b) when I did that and sorted it with blank columns, it always put the citations at the bottom with the blank colums at the top, which is no good...the blank columns need to stay at the bottom for when I enter more citations. Thanks! |
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