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combining paragraphs to fit margins that I set. Help!
I would like to combine my paragraphs in Word so that they will meet my page
margin specifications. If I set margins to 1 inch top/bottom and 1 inch left/right I want paragraph lines combined/wrapped to meet those margins. How do I do it? Here are two example paragraphs. I like to separate my paragraphs by using double spacing between them, like writing a "block" styled business letter. Would be nice too if I could set an option so Word would know that each chunk between a double space is a separate paragraph. Thanks for your help. "Your e-mail is extremely important to us and as such, I will certainly submit your concern to our product development team as a feature request. As a valued customer, we would like to provide you the best possible email experience using our service. And it is thru your inquiries, feedback and concern that we draw our plan on how we can improve our product to better serve you." "Subject should be a brief, meaningful summary of your question or comment. People are more likely to respond to a post if they know what the issue is by reading the Subject." |
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Format the style that you are using for the paragraphs so that it has 12 pts
space after it. Every time you press enter in Word a new paragraph is created. If you do not want to create a new paragraph, don't press enter. Word is a lot more than a typewriter on which is was necessary to use the carriage return when you got to the end of the line. With Word all you have to do is keep typing until you reach the end of the text that you want in the paragraph and then press enter. -- Please respond to the Newsgroup for the benefit of others who may be interested. Questions sent directly to me will only be answered on a paid consulting basis. Hope this helps, Doug Robbins - Word MVP "George" wrote in message ... I would like to combine my paragraphs in Word so that they will meet my page margin specifications. If I set margins to 1 inch top/bottom and 1 inch left/right I want paragraph lines combined/wrapped to meet those margins. How do I do it? Here are two example paragraphs. I like to separate my paragraphs by using double spacing between them, like writing a "block" styled business letter. Would be nice too if I could set an option so Word would know that each chunk between a double space is a separate paragraph. Thanks for your help. "Your e-mail is extremely important to us and as such, I will certainly submit your concern to our product development team as a feature request. As a valued customer, we would like to provide you the best possible email experience using our service. And it is thru your inquiries, feedback and concern that we draw our plan on how we can improve our product to better serve you." "Subject should be a brief, meaningful summary of your question or comment. People are more likely to respond to a post if they know what the issue is by reading the Subject." |
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Doug: I tried formatting the style from the formatting toolbar, "Normal,"
but it didn't solve my problem. I changed the style Normal to 12 like you said. Lines still do not wrap to end all the way at one inch from the edge like I wanted. (I changed the page layout to 1 inch top/bottom and left/right) It sounds like you are suggesting that if I want to combine lines to meet margins, then I will have to manually backspace every single line. Isn't there a way for Word to do all of that for me? Other people use shorter line margins when they write emails, and I'm trying to figure out a way to get more text on a page to save a few trees. Thanks! "Doug Robbins" wrote: Format the style that you are using for the paragraphs so that it has 12 pts space after it. Every time you press enter in Word a new paragraph is created. If you do not want to create a new paragraph, don't press enter. Word is a lot more than a typewriter on which is was necessary to use the carriage return when you got to the end of the line. With Word all you have to do is keep typing until you reach the end of the text that you want in the paragraph and then press enter. -- Please respond to the Newsgroup for the benefit of others who may be interested. Questions sent directly to me will only be answered on a paid consulting basis. Hope this helps, Doug Robbins - Word MVP "George" wrote in message ... I would like to combine my paragraphs in Word so that they will meet my page margin specifications. If I set margins to 1 inch top/bottom and 1 inch left/right I want paragraph lines combined/wrapped to meet those margins. How do I do it? Here are two example paragraphs. I like to separate my paragraphs by using double spacing between them, like writing a "block" styled business letter. Would be nice too if I could set an option so Word would know that each chunk between a double space is a separate paragraph. Thanks for your help. "Your e-mail is extremely important to us and as such, I will certainly submit your concern to our product development team as a feature request. As a valued customer, we would like to provide you the best possible email experience using our service. And it is thru your inquiries, feedback and concern that we draw our plan on how we can improve our product to better serve you." "Subject should be a brief, meaningful summary of your question or comment. People are more likely to respond to a post if they know what the issue is by reading the Subject." |
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See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/CleanWebText.htm
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "George" wrote in message ... Doug: I tried formatting the style from the formatting toolbar, "Normal," but it didn't solve my problem. I changed the style Normal to 12 like you said. Lines still do not wrap to end all the way at one inch from the edge like I wanted. (I changed the page layout to 1 inch top/bottom and left/right) It sounds like you are suggesting that if I want to combine lines to meet margins, then I will have to manually backspace every single line. Isn't there a way for Word to do all of that for me? Other people use shorter line margins when they write emails, and I'm trying to figure out a way to get more text on a page to save a few trees. Thanks! "Doug Robbins" wrote: Format the style that you are using for the paragraphs so that it has 12 pts space after it. Every time you press enter in Word a new paragraph is created. If you do not want to create a new paragraph, don't press enter. Word is a lot more than a typewriter on which is was necessary to use the carriage return when you got to the end of the line. With Word all you have to do is keep typing until you reach the end of the text that you want in the paragraph and then press enter. -- Please respond to the Newsgroup for the benefit of others who may be interested. Questions sent directly to me will only be answered on a paid consulting basis. Hope this helps, Doug Robbins - Word MVP "George" wrote in message ... I would like to combine my paragraphs in Word so that they will meet my page margin specifications. If I set margins to 1 inch top/bottom and 1 inch left/right I want paragraph lines combined/wrapped to meet those margins. How do I do it? Here are two example paragraphs. I like to separate my paragraphs by using double spacing between them, like writing a "block" styled business letter. Would be nice too if I could set an option so Word would know that each chunk between a double space is a separate paragraph. Thanks for your help. "Your e-mail is extremely important to us and as such, I will certainly submit your concern to our product development team as a feature request. As a valued customer, we would like to provide you the best possible experience using our service. And it is thru your inquiries, feedback and concern that we draw our plan on how we can improve our product to better serve you." "Subject should be a brief, meaningful summary of your question or comment. People are more likely to respond to a post if they know what the issue is by reading the Subject." |
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Suzanne:
This answers my question. Thanks for the help. I don't know if anyone will be reading this who can actually implement an improvement, but anyway, I hope that someday there will be some "wizard" or automatic way to accomplish this task below. My parents are the next generation up, and teaching them how to do all of this will be difficult. Yet, being able to combine information to get more on a page (more bang from a printer) is something that just about everyone could use. We are constantly arguing about the cost of a new printer cartridge. And paper costs money too, unless you do everything from work! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/CleanWebText.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "George" wrote in message ... Doug: I tried formatting the style from the formatting toolbar, "Normal," but it didn't solve my problem. I changed the style Normal to 12 like you said. Lines still do not wrap to end all the way at one inch from the edge like I wanted. (I changed the page layout to 1 inch top/bottom and left/right) It sounds like you are suggesting that if I want to combine lines to meet margins, then I will have to manually backspace every single line. Isn't there a way for Word to do all of that for me? Other people use shorter line margins when they write emails, and I'm trying to figure out a way to get more text on a page to save a few trees. Thanks! "Doug Robbins" wrote: Format the style that you are using for the paragraphs so that it has 12 pts space after it. Every time you press enter in Word a new paragraph is created. If you do not want to create a new paragraph, don't press enter. Word is a lot more than a typewriter on which is was necessary to use the carriage return when you got to the end of the line. With Word all you have to do is keep typing until you reach the end of the text that you want in the paragraph and then press enter. -- Please respond to the Newsgroup for the benefit of others who may be interested. Questions sent directly to me will only be answered on a paid consulting basis. Hope this helps, Doug Robbins - Word MVP "George" wrote in message ... I would like to combine my paragraphs in Word so that they will meet my page margin specifications. If I set margins to 1 inch top/bottom and 1 inch left/right I want paragraph lines combined/wrapped to meet those margins. How do I do it? Here are two example paragraphs. I like to separate my paragraphs by using double spacing between them, like writing a "block" styled business letter. Would be nice too if I could set an option so Word would know that each chunk between a double space is a separate paragraph. Thanks for your help. "Your e-mail is extremely important to us and as such, I will certainly submit your concern to our product development team as a feature request. As a valued customer, we would like to provide you the best possible experience using our service. And it is thru your inquiries, feedback and concern that we draw our plan on how we can improve our product to better serve you." "Subject should be a brief, meaningful summary of your question or comment. People are more likely to respond to a post if they know what the issue is by reading the Subject." |
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Well, AutoFormat often does quite a good job of this task.
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "George" wrote in message ... Suzanne: This answers my question. Thanks for the help. I don't know if anyone will be reading this who can actually implement an improvement, but anyway, I hope that someday there will be some "wizard" or automatic way to accomplish this task below. My parents are the next generation up, and teaching them how to do all of this will be difficult. Yet, being able to combine information to get more on a page (more bang from a printer) is something that just about everyone could use. We are constantly arguing about the cost of a new printer cartridge. And paper costs money too, unless you do everything from work! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/CleanWebText.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "George" wrote in message ... Doug: I tried formatting the style from the formatting toolbar, "Normal," but it didn't solve my problem. I changed the style Normal to 12 like you said. Lines still do not wrap to end all the way at one inch from the edge like I wanted. (I changed the page layout to 1 inch top/bottom and left/right) It sounds like you are suggesting that if I want to combine lines to meet margins, then I will have to manually backspace every single line. Isn't there a way for Word to do all of that for me? Other people use shorter line margins when they write emails, and I'm trying to figure out a way to get more text on a page to save a few trees. Thanks! "Doug Robbins" wrote: Format the style that you are using for the paragraphs so that it has 12 pts space after it. Every time you press enter in Word a new paragraph is created. If you do not want to create a new paragraph, don't press enter. Word is a lot more than a typewriter on which is was necessary to use the carriage return when you got to the end of the line. With Word all you have to do is keep typing until you reach the end of the text that you want in the paragraph and then press enter. -- Please respond to the Newsgroup for the benefit of others who may be interested. Questions sent directly to me will only be answered on a paid consulting basis. Hope this helps, Doug Robbins - Word MVP "George" wrote in message ... I would like to combine my paragraphs in Word so that they will meet my page margin specifications. If I set margins to 1 inch top/bottom and 1 inch left/right I want paragraph lines combined/wrapped to meet those margins. How do I do it? Here are two example paragraphs. I like to separate my paragraphs by using double spacing between them, like writing a "block" styled business letter. Would be nice too if I could set an option so Word would know that each chunk between a double space is a separate paragraph. Thanks for your help. "Your e-mail is extremely important to us and as such, I will certainly submit your concern to our product development team as a feature request. As a valued customer, we would like to provide you the best possible experience using our service. And it is thru your inquiries, feedback and concern that we draw our plan on how we can improve our product to better serve you." "Subject should be a brief, meaningful summary of your question or comment. People are more likely to respond to a post if they know what the issue is by reading the Subject." |
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