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Suppress paragraph "spacing before" at top of page
Possibly not, but there's a lot of good stuff that was.
-- 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. "Mike Starr" wrote in message ... I don't think it was ever a part of the context-sensitive help, either. Mike -- -- Mike Starr WriteStarr Information Services Technical Writer - Online Help Developer - Website developer Graphic Designer - Desktop Publisher - MS Office Expert Phone: (262) 694-1028 - Tollfree: (877) 892-1028 - Fax262) 697-6334 Email: - Web: http://www.writestarr.com "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... When context-sensitive Help was removed from the app, it was a huge step backward. -- 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. "Mike Starr" wrote in message ... Thanks for the link, Suzanne. I do find it shameful that this information has never made it into the help file. It's been missing since Word 97 (possibly before but I wasn't skilled enough with previous versions to know what I was missing). Best regards Mike "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... FWIW, there's a KB article that purports to explain the Compatibility Options. Let me see if I can locate it...yes, here it is: "Description of the Compatibility options that are available in the Options dialog box in Word 2003, Word 2002, and Word 2000" at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=288792. Its description of the options you mention is as follows: Suppress extra line spacing at top of page: This option prevents Word from adding extra line spacing at the top of a page. If the line spacing for the line at the top of a page is set for more than single spacing, Word ignores the extra spacing, so that the top margin does not increase. Suppress extra line spacing at the top of page like Word 5.x for the Mac: This option prevents Word from adding extra line spacing at the top of a page. If the line spacing for the line at the top of a page is set for more than single line spacing, Word ignores the extra spacing, so that the top margin does not increase. Suppress extra line spacing like WordPerfect 5.x: This option ensures that the layout of a converted WordPerfect document that is formatted with Automatic line height closely matches that of the original document. Suppress Space Before after a hard page or column break: This option suppresses the space in a paragraph formatted with the Space Before option that follows a hard page break or column break. Note that "extra line spacing" is not the same as "Space Before." "Extra line spacing" would be (as stated) anything other than Single: Double, 1.5 lines, Triple, At least, Exactly, or Multiple. Some of these spacing settings result in space above text lines, some below, some split (see the Compatibility Option "Don't center 'exact line height' lines"), which is why it can be very tricky to mix Multiple spacing (including Double, Triple, etc.) and "Exactly" spacing. -- 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. "Mike Starr" wrote in message ... I've always found it particularly frustrating that there is no documentation about what the distinction is between the various options... Suppress extra line spacing at top of page Suppress extra line spacing at top of page like Word 5.x for the Mac Suppress extra line spacing at top of page like WordPerfect 5.x Suppress Space Before after a hard page or column break How the hell do I know what those mean?? And furthermore, how do I know what's going to happen when I make multiple selections (since they're all check boxes). arggh Mike "John McGhie" wrote in message ... snip Word does have an option in teh Compatibility Options that allows you to force it to sppress space above at the top of the page always. Be careful with that one: it can result in some strange effects, and you have to set it for each document. |
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