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"Keep with Next" and/or "Keep Lines Together" not working
What am I doing wrong? I have a question/answer-type document in Word. I do
not want page breaks occuring between the pairs of Q&A paragraphs. Breaking the paragraphs themselves is fine, I just don't want the page break happening right in between Question and the Answer. (By the way, these are fairly large paragraphs, averaging ten or more lines apiece.) So I highlight the last line of the first paragraph through the first line of the second paragraph, go into paragraph formatting, and select "Keep with next." Then I hit "Okay." Boing! It sends the ENTIRE first paragraph onto the next page, as if I'd had "Keep Lines Together" selected in the formatting. But I don't have it selected! I don't want them kept together! How do I make it stop when it's already NOT selected??? Widow/Orphan control is on, if that makes a difference. Has anyone else encountered this problem? Thanks. |
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"Keep with Next" and/or "Keep Lines Together" not working
Trying formatting the Q paragraphs as "Keep lines together" and
"Keep with next", and the A paragraphs as "Keep lines together" only. Lisa wrote: What am I doing wrong? I have a question/answer-type document in Word. I do not want page breaks occuring between the pairs of Q&A paragraphs. Breaking the paragraphs themselves is fine, I just don't want the page break happening right in between Question and the Answer. (By the way, these are fairly large paragraphs, averaging ten or more lines apiece.) So I highlight the last line of the first paragraph through the first line of the second paragraph, go into paragraph formatting, and select "Keep with next." Then I hit "Okay." Boing! It sends the ENTIRE first paragraph onto the next page, as if I'd had "Keep Lines Together" selected in the formatting. But I don't have it selected! I don't want them kept together! How do I make it stop when it's already NOT selected??? Widow/Orphan control is on, if that makes a difference. Has anyone else encountered this problem? Thanks. |
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"Keep with Next" and/or "Keep Lines Together" not working
Keep with next.
Put your cursor in the paragraph you want to keep with the next one. Format Paragraph You do not need or want both paragraphs selected unless you want this to apply to both. I create a question style that has this formatting. The style for the following paragraph is my answer style. For multiple guess questions, I have an answer style that also has this formatting for all except the last answer. Then I have a derivative style for the last one that is the same except it does not have keep with next formatting. If your question is less than four lines, it should be kept on the same page by widow and orphan settings. Sometimes you get big jumps because you have multiple paragraphs all formatted as keep-with-next. -- 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. "Lisa" wrote in message ... What am I doing wrong? I have a question/answer-type document in Word. I do not want page breaks occuring between the pairs of Q&A paragraphs. Breaking the paragraphs themselves is fine, I just don't want the page break happening right in between Question and the Answer. (By the way, these are fairly large paragraphs, averaging ten or more lines apiece.) So I highlight the last line of the first paragraph through the first line of the second paragraph, go into paragraph formatting, and select "Keep with next." Then I hit "Okay." Boing! It sends the ENTIRE first paragraph onto the next page, as if I'd had "Keep Lines Together" selected in the formatting. But I don't have it selected! I don't want them kept together! How do I make it stop when it's already NOT selected??? Widow/Orphan control is on, if that makes a difference. Has anyone else encountered this problem? Thanks. |
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"Keep with Next" and/or "Keep Lines Together" not working
Your suggestion to refrain from highlighting the second paragraph makes
sense. I'll remember that in the future. Unfortunately, I tried doing it that way in this document, and it's still taking the entire first paragraph down to the next page. I don't have "keep with next" selected anywhere else in the document, so it's not that. Any more ideas? I'm at a loss as to why it's doing this. Thanks. "Charles Kenyon" wrote: Keep with next. Put your cursor in the paragraph you want to keep with the next one. Format Paragraph You do not need or want both paragraphs selected unless you want this to apply to both. I create a question style that has this formatting. The style for the following paragraph is my answer style. For multiple guess questions, I have an answer style that also has this formatting for all except the last answer. Then I have a derivative style for the last one that is the same except it does not have keep with next formatting. If your question is less than four lines, it should be kept on the same page by widow and orphan settings. Sometimes you get big jumps because you have multiple paragraphs all formatted as keep-with-next. -- 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. "Lisa" wrote in message ... What am I doing wrong? I have a question/answer-type document in Word. I do not want page breaks occuring between the pairs of Q&A paragraphs. Breaking the paragraphs themselves is fine, I just don't want the page break happening right in between Question and the Answer. (By the way, these are fairly large paragraphs, averaging ten or more lines apiece.) So I highlight the last line of the first paragraph through the first line of the second paragraph, go into paragraph formatting, and select "Keep with next." Then I hit "Okay." Boing! It sends the ENTIRE first paragraph onto the next page, as if I'd had "Keep Lines Together" selected in the formatting. But I don't have it selected! I don't want them kept together! How do I make it stop when it's already NOT selected??? Widow/Orphan control is on, if that makes a difference. Has anyone else encountered this problem? Thanks. |
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"Keep with Next" and/or "Keep Lines Together" not working
This is behavior that I consider a bug in Word. If you have a paragraph
formatted as "Keep with next," and there is not room for at least two lines of the following paragraph on the same page (assuming that "Widow/orphan control" is also enabled), the entire first paragraph moves to the next page with the following paragraph. You'd think Word could leave all but the last two lines of the first paragraph on the first page, but that is not the way it is designed. For relatively short paragraphs, such as headings (which are the type of paragraph most often formatte as KWN), this is not usually an issue, and if you have short questions and long answers, it shouldn't be a problem, but if the questions are long, you'll just have to live with it. -- 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. "Lisa" wrote in message ... What am I doing wrong? I have a question/answer-type document in Word. I do not want page breaks occuring between the pairs of Q&A paragraphs. Breaking the paragraphs themselves is fine, I just don't want the page break happening right in between Question and the Answer. (By the way, these are fairly large paragraphs, averaging ten or more lines apiece.) So I highlight the last line of the first paragraph through the first line of the second paragraph, go into paragraph formatting, and select "Keep with next." Then I hit "Okay." Boing! It sends the ENTIRE first paragraph onto the next page, as if I'd had "Keep Lines Together" selected in the formatting. But I don't have it selected! I don't want them kept together! How do I make it stop when it's already NOT selected??? Widow/Orphan control is on, if that makes a difference. Has anyone else encountered this problem? Thanks. |
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