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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."

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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.

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Hope this helps,
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"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

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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

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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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

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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Well, AutoFormat often does quite a good job of this task.

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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

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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