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Thesis Formatting: Different Margins for different pages!?!
Ok. I have to format my thesis for turning it into the graduate school.
They are VERY particular about margins, which must be 2" on the first page of each chapter, and 2" on the cover page, Then 1" for the remaining pages. How do I format the margins differently for different pages?? I Can get it to 2" from the top on the first two pages, but then the page break does not work going from the 2nd to third pages!! HELP!! |
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How interesting. What insanity.
For the cover page--use a Next Page Section Break between the cover page and the next page, then set margins for only that section. But you don't really want a Next Page Section Break in the middle of a stream of text if you can avoid it. Which margins need to be 2" on the first page of each chapter? If just the top and bottom margins, you can use a Different First Page Header and put extra space in it. If side margins also, you could manually add indentation to the text on the first page of the each chapter. Maybe, I'm less sure about that one. These are two very useful links for thesis-type formatting questions: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...rontMatter.htm http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/HeaderFooter.htm Which would explain most of how to do what I suggested. However, others may come along with better suggestions. On 5/11/05 9:29 AM, "Confused Grad Student" wrote: Ok. I have to format my thesis for turning it into the graduate school. They are VERY particular about margins, which must be 2" on the first page of each chapter, and 2" on the cover page, Then 1" for the remaining pages. How do I format the margins differently for different pages?? I Can get it to 2" from the top on the first two pages, but then the page break does not work going from the 2nd to third pages!! HELP!! -- Daiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/ MacWord Tips: http://www.word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/ What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ |
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I'm guessing it's just the top margin, which is reasonable. Although I do
use Next Page breaks between chapters in books, I don't actually change the top margin (by adding space to the First Page Header). I usually use a Chapter Number or Chapter Title (whichever comes first) style with enough Space Before to drop it the desired amount. In some cases where the depth of the chapter number and title and any epigraph that may follow will vary, I put the whole thing in a single (borderless) table cell set to an exact height so that the first line of Body Text (which will start below the table) will appear at the same point on the first page of each chapter. -- 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. "Daiya Mitchell" wrote in message .. . How interesting. What insanity. For the cover page--use a Next Page Section Break between the cover page and the next page, then set margins for only that section. But you don't really want a Next Page Section Break in the middle of a stream of text if you can avoid it. Which margins need to be 2" on the first page of each chapter? If just the top and bottom margins, you can use a Different First Page Header and put extra space in it. If side margins also, you could manually add indentation to the text on the first page of the each chapter. Maybe, I'm less sure about that one. These are two very useful links for thesis-type formatting questions: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...rontMatter.htm http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/HeaderFooter.htm Which would explain most of how to do what I suggested. However, others may come along with better suggestions. On 5/11/05 9:29 AM, "Confused Grad Student" wrote: Ok. I have to format my thesis for turning it into the graduate school. They are VERY particular about margins, which must be 2" on the first page of each chapter, and 2" on the cover page, Then 1" for the remaining pages. How do I format the margins differently for different pages?? I Can get it to 2" from the top on the first two pages, but then the page break does not work going from the 2nd to third pages!! HELP!! -- Daiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/ MacWord Tips: http://www.word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/ What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ |
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If just the top margin, totally reasonable. I assumed differently, since it
never crossed my mind that anybody *wouldn't* start a chapter lower down on the page, thus in my world a request for a 2in top margin on the first page of a chapter would be moot. But I don't know what books in any other field look like. My thesis czars were actually quite sane--the main rules were about ensuring nothing got chopped when they trimmed the pages after binding, so they whip out a ruler and measure the margins. Otherwise fairly flexible. DM On 5/11/05 3:31 PM, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I'm guessing it's just the top margin, which is reasonable. Although I do use Next Page breaks between chapters in books, I don't actually change the top margin (by adding space to the First Page Header). I usually use a Chapter Number or Chapter Title (whichever comes first) style with enough Space Before to drop it the desired amount. In some cases where the depth of the chapter number and title and any epigraph that may follow will vary, I put the whole thing in a single (borderless) table cell set to an exact height so that the first line of Body Text (which will start below the table) will appear at the same point on the first page of each chapter. |
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Back in the Dark Ages when I wrote my thesis, the school bookstore sold the
approved thesis paper, which had a No Copy Blue border creating margins of 1.25" top and left, 1" bottom and right. The page number (top right) was typed outside this border, but if any other character extended beyond the border, the thesis (or at least that page) would be rejected. Luckily, since I was not using a correcting typewriter (and was a terrible typist even then), the paper was Corrasable Bond. I was using an IBM Selectric, with several typeballs, stopping to change balls for italics and Greek. It was a very tedious 260-odd pages! -- 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. "Daiya Mitchell" wrote in message .. . If just the top margin, totally reasonable. I assumed differently, since it never crossed my mind that anybody *wouldn't* start a chapter lower down on the page, thus in my world a request for a 2in top margin on the first page of a chapter would be moot. But I don't know what books in any other field look like. My thesis czars were actually quite sane--the main rules were about ensuring nothing got chopped when they trimmed the pages after binding, so they whip out a ruler and measure the margins. Otherwise fairly flexible. DM On 5/11/05 3:31 PM, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I'm guessing it's just the top margin, which is reasonable. Although I do use Next Page breaks between chapters in books, I don't actually change the top margin (by adding space to the First Page Header). I usually use a Chapter Number or Chapter Title (whichever comes first) style with enough Space Before to drop it the desired amount. In some cases where the depth of the chapter number and title and any epigraph that may follow will vary, I put the whole thing in a single (borderless) table cell set to an exact height so that the first line of Body Text (which will start below the table) will appear at the same point on the first page of each chapter. |
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