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I'm looking for suggestions on formatting the title page to my thesis.
This is supposed to be centered vertically on the page, with several blocks of text for the title, the school and department, the degree and my name... it is quite easy to do if I just put carriage returns between lines, but I often see, in reading posts on this group, that I shouldn't do this... more immediately, when I shift the document from my home to school computers, these spaces get messed up. Is there an appropriate way to do this with styles? thanks, mike |
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You can only handle the vertical centering using a section break - next page
at the end of your title page. Then format that page for vertical centering. You can handle the spacing between paragraphs using space-before or space-after formatting on your paragraphs. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. wrote in message oups.com... I'm looking for suggestions on formatting the title page to my thesis. This is supposed to be centered vertically on the page, with several blocks of text for the title, the school and department, the degree and my name... it is quite easy to do if I just put carriage returns between lines, but I often see, in reading posts on this group, that I shouldn't do this... more immediately, when I shift the document from my home to school computers, these spaces get messed up. Is there an appropriate way to do this with styles? thanks, mike |
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I agree in principle, though I do sometimes use the Title style (adapted)
for the actual title, and I usually add Space Before or After to get the spacing. What I *don't* recommend is using Center vertical alignment because (a) this requires an otherwise unneeded section break, and (b) mathematical centering will always look bad: for a single block of text, you need more space below the text than above to keep it from looking like it's falling off the page; alternatively, a typical title page for a consulting report or academic paper may have a title just above center with a lot of subsidiary text stretching to the bottom margin. -- 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. "John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]" wrote in message ... Mike: Most people do the "Title Page" of a long publication using Direct Formatting, since the formatting in question happens only on one page and affects only a few lines of text -- it's not usually worth making styles for it. So su "Blank lines" are fine the quick, and they work. For greater stability, use a Table but hide the lines. Type your text in the cells, then stretch the rows to get the lines in the correct place. Just don't do this in the rest of your document, or you will never get the thing to paginate properly and you will never get the page breaks stable. And lots of other bad things will happen to :-) Cheers On 17/11/05 8:37 PM, in article , " wrote: I'm looking for suggestions on formatting the title page to my thesis. This is supposed to be centered vertically on the page, with several blocks of text for the title, the school and department, the degree and my name... it is quite easy to do if I just put carriage returns between lines, but I often see, in reading posts on this group, that I shouldn't do this... more immediately, when I shift the document from my home to school computers, these spaces get messed up. Is there an appropriate way to do this with styles? thanks, mike -- Please reply to the newsgroup to maintain the thread. Please do not email me unless I ask you to. John McGhie Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Consultant Technical Writer Sydney, Australia +61 4 1209 1410 |
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