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changing page 3 w/o affecting pages 2 or 4 (lock pages)
I'm curious to know if there's way where you can change the format of your
word document to hold information on one page only at a time so that your text didn't overflow onto the next page. For example, I'm trying to use each page as its own document where I can add, change or delete things without affecting the next page. If you understand what I'm talking about or think you do, please email me with a possible answer... and if you know that there's no way to do this, tell me too so I can move on with another idea. With thanks, p george |
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changing page 3 w/o affecting pages 2 or 4 (lock pages)
What you describe sounds a bit to me like an Acrobat or Reader text field on
a form, where you keep typing and it autosizes the text to fit the defined box. I don't know whether you could create forms or text boxes in Word to act like that. Someone else may. In general, Word *really* doesn't work the way you want it to. You could kinda force it, by inserting page breaks and constantly manually changing the size of the text to keep it at one page. This is unlikely to look pretty, it's not going to print out consistently if you are cutting it close and transporting the doc to different people/printers, and it's likely to drive you crazy if you edit this doc a lot. Basically, Word doesn't really know what a page is, so you'd be struggling against the built-in design of Word. More info on that: http://word.mvps.org/Mac/PagesInWord.html Maybe if you say a little bit more about *why* you need this, what you are going to do with it, or what kind of information you are dealing with, someone can suggest something more helpful. On 10/9/06 2:56 PM, "princessgeorge" wrote: I'm curious to know if there's way where you can change the format of your word document to hold information on one page only at a time so that your text didn't overflow onto the next page. For example, I'm trying to use each page as its own document where I can add, change or delete things without affecting the next page. If you understand what I'm talking about or think you do, please email me with a possible answer... and if you know that there's no way to do this, tell me too so I can move on with another idea. With thanks, p george -- Daiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/ MacWord Tips: http://word.mvps.org/Mac/WordMacHome.html What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ |
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changing page 3 w/o affecting pages 2 or 4 (lock pages)
A simple way to keep text from flowing to the next page is to use a
border-less table with fixed dimensions. In this case, three single-cell tables (one for each page) should work. To set a fixed height for a table row, use Table | Table Properties. On the Row tab, check "Specify height" and type the desired value, and choose "Exactly" for "Row height is." If you are in fact trying to create a form, see http://word.mvps.org/faqs/tblsfldsfms/LinesInForms.htm. For more "power," see also the linked articles (by Dian Chapman) about protected forms. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "princessgeorge" wrote in message ... I'm curious to know if there's way where you can change the format of your word document to hold information on one page only at a time so that your text didn't overflow onto the next page. For example, I'm trying to use each page as its own document where I can add, change or delete things without affecting the next page. If you understand what I'm talking about or think you do, please email me with a possible answer... and if you know that there's no way to do this, tell me too so I can move on with another idea. With thanks, p george |
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