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Frames' "Move with text" broken in Word 2007?
I think I've discovered a bug in the way Word 2007 handles frames near a page
break, and I wonder if anybody here has the inside story (or better yet, a fix). Some background: my department manages hundreds of thousands of documents that use scholar's margins as headings, which are identical to the "true marginal text" described by Suzanne Barnhill in her excllent tutorial at http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/MarginalText.htm. (Oh how I wish I'd known about that page three years ago!) We've recently converted all those documents from Word 2003 to Word 2007, and in Word 2007 I've discovered that in many instances the marginal text is being orphaned at the bottom of one page while its anchored paragraph has been moved to the next page by Word's suppression of widows & orphans. If I open the same document in Word 2003, the problem disappears, and the marginal text frame obediently follows its paragraph to the next page. The settings and properties and text of the paragraphs and frames are identical in both cases, so the only culprit I can see is Word 2007 itself. Locking the anchor of the frame to the paragraph has no effect: when the marginal frame is separated from its paragraph, the anchor re-attaches to the first paragraph on the page in which the frame has been orphaned. It does this with or without a "lock" in place. As long as there's no page break involved, the frame moves with its text just fine. And much of the time, when the frame's paragraph moves to a new page, the frame moves with it. But there appears to be a kind of "sweet spot" where, if the paragraph is just barely nudged to the next page, the frame refuses to follow. It's very troublesome, and I wonder if anyone here has seen this behavior before? -- Marvin Long, Jr. |
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Frames' "Move with text" broken in Word 2007?
Thanks, Marvin. I'll report this. Any chance you could provide a sample doc
for the product team to look at? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Marvin42" wrote in message ... I think I've discovered a bug in the way Word 2007 handles frames near a page break, and I wonder if anybody here has the inside story (or better yet, a fix). Some background: my department manages hundreds of thousands of documents that use scholar's margins as headings, which are identical to the "true marginal text" described by Suzanne Barnhill in her excellent tutorial at http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/MarginalText.htm. (Oh how I wish I'd known about that page three years ago!) We've recently converted all those documents from Word 2003 to Word 2007, and in Word 2007 I've discovered that in many instances the marginal text is being orphaned at the bottom of one page while its anchored paragraph has been moved to the next page by Word's suppression of widows & orphans. If I open the same document in Word 2003, the problem disappears, and the marginal text frame obediently follows its paragraph to the next page. The settings and properties and text of the paragraphs and frames are identical in both cases, so the only culprit I can see is Word 2007 itself. Locking the anchor of the frame to the paragraph has no effect: when the marginal frame is separated from its paragraph, the anchor re-attaches to the first paragraph on the page in which the frame has been orphaned. It does this with or without a "lock" in place. As long as there's no page break involved, the frame moves with its text just fine. And much of the time, when the frame's paragraph moves to a new page, the frame moves with it. But there appears to be a kind of "sweet spot" where, if the paragraph is just barely nudged to the next page, the frame refuses to follow. It's very troublesome, and I wonder if anyone here has seen this behavior before? -- Marvin Long, Jr. |
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Frames' "Move with text" broken in Word 2007?
Gladly. How should I do that?
-- Marvin Long, Jr. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Thanks, Marvin. I'll report this. Any chance you could provide a sample doc for the product team to look at? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Marvin42" wrote in message ... I think I've discovered a bug in the way Word 2007 handles frames near a page break, and I wonder if anybody here has the inside story (or better yet, a fix). Some background: my department manages hundreds of thousands of documents that use scholar's margins as headings, which are identical to the "true marginal text" described by Suzanne Barnhill in her excellent tutorial at http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/MarginalText.htm. (Oh how I wish I'd known about that page three years ago!) We've recently converted all those documents from Word 2003 to Word 2007, and in Word 2007 I've discovered that in many instances the marginal text is being orphaned at the bottom of one page while its anchored paragraph has been moved to the next page by Word's suppression of widows & orphans. If I open the same document in Word 2003, the problem disappears, and the marginal text frame obediently follows its paragraph to the next page. The settings and properties and text of the paragraphs and frames are identical in both cases, so the only culprit I can see is Word 2007 itself. Locking the anchor of the frame to the paragraph has no effect: when the marginal frame is separated from its paragraph, the anchor re-attaches to the first paragraph on the page in which the frame has been orphaned. It does this with or without a "lock" in place. As long as there's no page break involved, the frame moves with its text just fine. And much of the time, when the frame's paragraph moves to a new page, the frame moves with it. But there appears to be a kind of "sweet spot" where, if the paragraph is just barely nudged to the next page, the frame refuses to follow. It's very troublesome, and I wonder if anyone here has seen this behavior before? -- Marvin Long, Jr. |
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Frames' "Move with text" broken in Word 2007?
If you click on my name in the message window, you should get my profile
with an email address. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Marvin42" wrote in message ... Gladly. How should I do that? -- Marvin Long, Jr. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Thanks, Marvin. I'll report this. Any chance you could provide a sample doc for the product team to look at? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Marvin42" wrote in message ... I think I've discovered a bug in the way Word 2007 handles frames near a page break, and I wonder if anybody here has the inside story (or better yet, a fix). Some background: my department manages hundreds of thousands of documents that use scholar's margins as headings, which are identical to the "true marginal text" described by Suzanne Barnhill in her excellent tutorial at http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/MarginalText.htm. (Oh how I wish I'd known about that page three years ago!) We've recently converted all those documents from Word 2003 to Word 2007, and in Word 2007 I've discovered that in many instances the marginal text is being orphaned at the bottom of one page while its anchored paragraph has been moved to the next page by Word's suppression of widows & orphans. If I open the same document in Word 2003, the problem disappears, and the marginal text frame obediently follows its paragraph to the next page. The settings and properties and text of the paragraphs and frames are identical in both cases, so the only culprit I can see is Word 2007 itself. Locking the anchor of the frame to the paragraph has no effect: when the marginal frame is separated from its paragraph, the anchor re-attaches to the first paragraph on the page in which the frame has been orphaned. It does this with or without a "lock" in place. As long as there's no page break involved, the frame moves with its text just fine. And much of the time, when the frame's paragraph moves to a new page, the frame moves with it. But there appears to be a kind of "sweet spot" where, if the paragraph is just barely nudged to the next page, the frame refuses to follow. It's very troublesome, and I wonder if anyone here has seen this behavior before? -- Marvin Long, Jr. |
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Frames' "Move with text" broken in Word 2007?
Done! Thank you very, very much.
-- Marvin Long, Jr. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: If you click on my name in the message window, you should get my profile with an email address. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Marvin42" wrote in message ... Gladly. How should I do that? -- Marvin Long, Jr. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Thanks, Marvin. I'll report this. Any chance you could provide a sample doc for the product team to look at? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Marvin42" wrote in message ... I think I've discovered a bug in the way Word 2007 handles frames near a page break, and I wonder if anybody here has the inside story (or better yet, a fix). Some background: my department manages hundreds of thousands of documents that use scholar's margins as headings, which are identical to the "true marginal text" described by Suzanne Barnhill in her excellent tutorial at http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/MarginalText.htm. (Oh how I wish I'd known about that page three years ago!) We've recently converted all those documents from Word 2003 to Word 2007, and in Word 2007 I've discovered that in many instances the marginal text is being orphaned at the bottom of one page while its anchored paragraph has been moved to the next page by Word's suppression of widows & orphans. If I open the same document in Word 2003, the problem disappears, and the marginal text frame obediently follows its paragraph to the next page. The settings and properties and text of the paragraphs and frames are identical in both cases, so the only culprit I can see is Word 2007 itself. Locking the anchor of the frame to the paragraph has no effect: when the marginal frame is separated from its paragraph, the anchor re-attaches to the first paragraph on the page in which the frame has been orphaned. It does this with or without a "lock" in place. As long as there's no page break involved, the frame moves with its text just fine. And much of the time, when the frame's paragraph moves to a new page, the frame moves with it. But there appears to be a kind of "sweet spot" where, if the paragraph is just barely nudged to the next page, the frame refuses to follow. It's very troublesome, and I wonder if anyone here has seen this behavior before? -- Marvin Long, Jr. |
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