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song sheet: specify space for line breaks
I want to create a song lyric sheet which typically has text in stanzas. So
my text will follow this: Stanza 1: text line 1 text line 2 text line 3 Stanza 2: text line 1 text line 2 text line 3 I know how to specify paragraph spacing for Normal styles but how do I set different spacing between text line 1 and 2, and between stanzas? Thank you. |
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song sheet: specify space for line breaks
Create and apply a different paragraph style for each uniquely formatted
line. To some extent you can switch styles automatically by setting the following style to the style that should be next when you press enter. From your description it sounds like you need three styles here. A New Stanza style, a First Line style and a Body Text style. You can get a new stanza style to be followed by a first line style and a first line style to be followed by a body text style. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Melissa wrote: I want to create a song lyric sheet which typically has text in stanzas. So my text will follow this: Stanza 1: text line 1 text line 2 text line 3 Stanza 2: text line 1 text line 2 text line 3 I know how to specify paragraph spacing for Normal styles but how do I set different spacing between text line 1 and 2, and between stanzas? Thank you. |
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song sheet: specify space for line breaks
Thanks Graham. I was hoping for an easier way where I specify paragraph
spacing for when I press Enter and when I press Shift+Enter (which gives the line break between text lines). I'm not creating the song sheet from scratch but have copied songs from the net which contain line breaks already. So I thought of just changing some settings (if they exist) for the line breaks... Thanks anyway! "Graham Mayor" wrote: Create and apply a different paragraph style for each uniquely formatted line. To some extent you can switch styles automatically by setting the following style to the style that should be next when you press enter. From your description it sounds like you need three styles here. A New Stanza style, a First Line style and a Body Text style. You can get a new stanza style to be followed by a first line style and a first line style to be followed by a body text style. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Melissa wrote: I want to create a song lyric sheet which typically has text in stanzas. So my text will follow this: Stanza 1: text line 1 text line 2 text line 3 Stanza 2: text line 1 text line 2 text line 3 I know how to specify paragraph spacing for Normal styles but how do I set different spacing between text line 1 and 2, and between stanzas? Thank you. |
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song sheet: specify space for line breaks
Once you've defined your styles, applying them to existing text is very
quick: do one, then use the format painter -- then it's just one click for each line. "Melissa" wrote in message ... Thanks Graham. I was hoping for an easier way where I specify paragraph spacing for when I press Enter and when I press Shift+Enter (which gives the line break between text lines). I'm not creating the song sheet from scratch but have copied songs from the net which contain line breaks already. So I thought of just changing some settings (if they exist) for the line breaks... Thanks anyway! "Graham Mayor" wrote: Create and apply a different paragraph style for each uniquely formatted line. To some extent you can switch styles automatically by setting the following style to the style that should be next when you press enter. From your description it sounds like you need three styles here. A New Stanza style, a First Line style and a Body Text style. You can get a new stanza style to be followed by a first line style and a first line style to be followed by a body text style. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Melissa wrote: I want to create a song lyric sheet which typically has text in stanzas. So my text will follow this: Stanza 1: text line 1 text line 2 text line 3 Stanza 2: text line 1 text line 2 text line 3 I know how to specify paragraph spacing for Normal styles but how do I set different spacing between text line 1 and 2, and between stanzas? Thank you. |
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song sheet: specify space for line breaks
The spacing for Shift+Enter is the same as the "line spacing" (single,
double, 1.5, etc.) between regular lines within the paragraph. Think of Shift+Enter as the instruction "start the next line within the same paragraph". The spacing for Enter is controlled by the Space Before and Space After settings of the paragraph style. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Wed, 6 Dec 2006 22:34:00 -0800, Melissa wrote: Thanks Graham. I was hoping for an easier way where I specify paragraph spacing for when I press Enter and when I press Shift+Enter (which gives the line break between text lines). I'm not creating the song sheet from scratch but have copied songs from the net which contain line breaks already. So I thought of just changing some settings (if they exist) for the line breaks... Thanks anyway! "Graham Mayor" wrote: Create and apply a different paragraph style for each uniquely formatted line. To some extent you can switch styles automatically by setting the following style to the style that should be next when you press enter. From your description it sounds like you need three styles here. A New Stanza style, a First Line style and a Body Text style. You can get a new stanza style to be followed by a first line style and a first line style to be followed by a body text style. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Melissa wrote: I want to create a song lyric sheet which typically has text in stanzas. So my text will follow this: Stanza 1: text line 1 text line 2 text line 3 Stanza 2: text line 1 text line 2 text line 3 I know how to specify paragraph spacing for Normal styles but how do I set different spacing between text line 1 and 2, and between stanzas? Thank you. |
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