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I frequently edit a small magazine using Word XP. Sometimes a short one-page
article will overflow (one line maybe) onto the next page. Trial-and-error
with character spacing, font percentage etc usually allows it to fit all on
the same page but is there an easier way?
David


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Hello David

David Gibbons wrote:
I frequently edit a small magazine using Word XP. Sometimes a short one-page
article will overflow (one line maybe) onto the next page. Trial-and-error
with character spacing, font percentage etc usually allows it to fit all on
the same page but is there an easier way?


Word, as a text processor, is designed to do this. You could setup a
frame- or textbox layout where text flows only in a box, and with
textboxes you can concatenate two so that it flows from one to the
other. This is somewhat using Word as a DTP application. Doable if you
know the application well enough; I would not want to do it with _long_
documents, though ...

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See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/FitCopy.htm

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David Gibbons wrote:
I frequently edit a small magazine using Word XP. Sometimes a short
one-page article will overflow (one line maybe) onto the next page.
Trial-and-error with character spacing, font percentage etc usually
allows it to fit all on the same page but is there an easier way?
David



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See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/FitCopy.htm

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I frequently edit a small magazine using Word XP. Sometimes a short

one-page
article will overflow (one line maybe) onto the next page. Trial-and-error
with character spacing, font percentage etc usually allows it to fit all

on
the same page but is there an easier way?
David



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Many thanks for pointing me to the Web site. I have tried two of the methods
suggested - one to compress the text 0.1 pt and the other "shrink to fit".
Both seem to do the trick. Thanks. David

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See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/FitCopy.htm

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"David Gibbons" wrote in message
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I frequently edit a small magazine using Word XP. Sometimes a short

one-page
article will overflow (one line maybe) onto the next page.
Trial-and-error
with character spacing, font percentage etc usually allows it to fit all

on
the same page but is there an easier way?
David





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