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Eliminate line numbers on blank lines?
How can I set Word to refrain from assigning line numbers to blank
lines? It's a bit of a pain having to go through each document to remove the numbers on paragraph breaks, etc. Thanks! Tom M |
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Eliminate line numbers on blank lines?
Word does not number blank lines if they are created correctly. It does
number empty paragraphs. The solution is to eliminate empty paragraphs and create "blank lines" by adding Space Before or After to your text through the Format | Paragraph dialog. -- 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. "TDMedia" wrote in message oups.com... How can I set Word to refrain from assigning line numbers to blank lines? It's a bit of a pain having to go through each document to remove the numbers on paragraph breaks, etc. Thanks! Tom M |
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Eliminate line numbers on blank lines?
Sorry, Suzanne. I'm not quite getting your explanation. Can you give
me a blow-by-blow, as if you're talking to an idiot? Thanks! |
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Eliminate line numbers on blank lines?
Tom
See: http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Count_Lines_of_Text.htm for an illustration on why your "blank" lines are being numbered. |
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Eliminate line numbers on blank lines?
In addition to what Greg says (and his graphics are worth 1,000 words of
mine, no matter how simple), if you insist on using empty paragraphs to create "blank lines," then you'll have to suppress line numbering in those paragraphs (on the Line and Page Breaks tab of Format | Paragraph), but the only efficient way to do that would be with a style, and if you're going to learn to use styles, you might as well save time by learning to use a style with Space Before or After. -- 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. "Greg" wrote in message ups.com... Tom See: http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Count_Lines_of_Text.htm for an illustration on why your "blank" lines are being numbered. |
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Eliminate line numbers on blank lines?
All right. I guess I AM an idiot. It's amazing how I can do some of
the things I do when I can't understand a word either of you are saying. Suzanne: I ultimately managed to fix the last problem you tried to help me with (forms), but it took a whole bunch of trial and error on my own. I guess I'm not good at written directions. Thanks, anyway! |
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Answer: Eliminate line numbers on blank lines?
Hi Tom!
I understand how frustrating it can be to have to manually remove line numbers from blank lines in a Word document. Fortunately, there is a way to set Word to automatically refrain from assigning line numbers to blank lines. Here's how to do it:
That's it! Now Word will automatically refrain from assigning line numbers to blank lines in your document. You won't have to manually remove them anymore.
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