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Word 2003 Outline Formatting
Hello All,
Need some help on Outline formating in Word 2003. I am looking to format outline to show the following, single line spacing as you type and then skipping a line between levels. See below... 1) Single line spacing would go like this. a) Skipped line between levels would look like this. |
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You handle this in the paragraph style by setting the space after to, say, 7
or 14 points (assuming that you are using 12 point type). Pam Mike wrote: Hello All, Need some help on Outline formating in Word 2003. I am looking to format outline to show the following, single line spacing as you type and then skipping a line between levels. See below... 1) Single line spacing would go like this. a) Skipped line between levels would look like this. -- Message posted via OfficeKB.com http://www.officekb.com/Uwe/Forums.a...ement/200904/1 |
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Pam,
Thanks, that did what I wanted. Wouldn't I use 12 point for the spacing, if I wanted the space to match the document that was in 12 point. It looks right when I tried it. Mike "PamC via OfficeKB.com" wrote: You handle this in the paragraph style by setting the space after to, say, 7 or 14 points (assuming that you are using 12 point type). Pam Mike wrote: Hello All, Need some help on Outline formating in Word 2003. I am looking to format outline to show the following, single line spacing as you type and then skipping a line between levels. See below... 1) Single line spacing would go like this. a) Skipped line between levels would look like this. -- Message posted via OfficeKB.com http://www.officekb.com/Uwe/Forums.a...ement/200904/1 |
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I think 12 is plenty. To tell the truth, I think 6 is plenty in most cases
(that's the Space After defined for the built-in Body Text style). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Mike" wrote in message ... Pam, Thanks, that did what I wanted. Wouldn't I use 12 point for the spacing, if I wanted the space to match the document that was in 12 point. It looks right when I tried it. Mike "PamC via OfficeKB.com" wrote: You handle this in the paragraph style by setting the space after to, say, 7 or 14 points (assuming that you are using 12 point type). Pam Mike wrote: Hello All, Need some help on Outline formating in Word 2003. I am looking to format outline to show the following, single line spacing as you type and then skipping a line between levels. See below... 1) Single line spacing would go like this. a) Skipped line between levels would look like this. -- Message posted via OfficeKB.com http://www.officekb.com/Uwe/Forums.a...ement/200904/1 |
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I suggested 14 because that is closer to the actual line spacing. Word
pretty much hides the details from us, but for 12 point type, the single spacing is about 14 points. I always base additional vertical spacing on the actual line spacing and horizontal spacing on the point size--a holdover from designing book layouts back in the hard type days I guess. But as you say, 12 looks fine. I'm glad to have helped. Pam Mike wrote: Pam, Thanks, that did what I wanted. Wouldn't I use 12 point for the spacing, if I wanted the space to match the document that was in 12 point. It looks right when I tried it. Mike You handle this in the paragraph style by setting the space after to, say, 7 or 14 points (assuming that you are using 12 point type). [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] a) Skipped line between levels would look like this. -- Message posted via OfficeKB.com http://www.officekb.com/Uwe/Forums.a...ement/200904/1 |
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I very much agree that half or even a quarter of the line spacing is plenty.
But some of my clients still base their spacing on what they would have done with typewriters, so I included the "full" line spacing in the options to Mike. Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: I think 12 is plenty. To tell the truth, I think 6 is plenty in most cases (that's the Space After defined for the built-in Body Text style). Pam, [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] a) Skipped line between levels would look like this. -- Message posted via OfficeKB.com http://www.officekb.com/Uwe/Forums.a...ement/200904/1 |
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It's very difficult to determine what actual line spacing is for a given
font at a given point size unless you have the paragraph spacing set to an Exact amount. It does vary considerably from font to font. Keeping line spacing even is paramount if you're using something like the MS Pleading template that has line numbers hard-coded in the margin, and it's helpful if you're doing columnar text (to try to keep the bottoms of columns even), but it is extraordinarily complex in that Word's vertical justification is so unsatisfactory. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "PamC via OfficeKB.com" u43222@uwe wrote in message news:9518210a0c635@uwe... I suggested 14 because that is closer to the actual line spacing. Word pretty much hides the details from us, but for 12 point type, the single spacing is about 14 points. I always base additional vertical spacing on the actual line spacing and horizontal spacing on the point size--a holdover from designing book layouts back in the hard type days I guess. But as you say, 12 looks fine. I'm glad to have helped. Pam Mike wrote: Pam, Thanks, that did what I wanted. Wouldn't I use 12 point for the spacing, if I wanted the space to match the document that was in 12 point. It looks right when I tried it. Mike You handle this in the paragraph style by setting the space after to, say, 7 or 14 points (assuming that you are using 12 point type). [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] a) Skipped line between levels would look like this. -- Message posted via OfficeKB.com http://www.officekb.com/Uwe/Forums.a...ement/200904/1 |
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Yes, I realized this was what you were doing, but, as I said in my other
reply, the leading varies so much from one font to another that this can be more trouble than it's worth. Word bases its multiple (e.g., double) spacing on the font's built-in leading, and IMO Double spacing is much too spacey; I use Exactly 24 points to "double-space" 12-pt TNR. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "PamC via OfficeKB.com" u43222@uwe wrote in message news:951839321c045@uwe... I very much agree that half or even a quarter of the line spacing is plenty. But some of my clients still base their spacing on what they would have done with typewriters, so I included the "full" line spacing in the options to Mike. Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: I think 12 is plenty. To tell the truth, I think 6 is plenty in most cases (that's the Space After defined for the built-in Body Text style). Pam, [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] a) Skipped line between levels would look like this. -- Message posted via OfficeKB.com http://www.officekb.com/Uwe/Forums.a...ement/200904/1 |
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