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Keep with Next not working
I have a heading style I'm using, and have modified the style's paragraph
settings with the "Keep with Next" box checked. However, I still get instances where the heading will be the last line at the bottom of a page. What am I doing wrong? |
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Keep with Next not working
On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:09:01 -0800, Nevets
wrote: I have a heading style I'm using, and have modified the style's paragraph settings with the "Keep with Next" box checked. However, I still get instances where the heading will be the last line at the bottom of a page. What am I doing wrong? That usually indicates that you have an "empty paragraph" of some other style, such as Normal, following the heading. Since that paragraph doesn't have "Keep with next", it gets separated from the paragraph of visible text after that. Remove the empty paragraph mark. If you want extra space between the heading and the following text, increase the Space After paragraph formatting in the heading style. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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Keep with Next not working
That's not the problem. The next line is the start of a bulleted list
(actually an outline numbered list I've customized the way I want multi-level bullets in the whole document to appear). There is no empty paragraph. I tried to experiment by adding some text with a Normal style in the next line, but the same thing is happening...my heading is alone at the bottom of the previous page. "Jay Freedman" wrote: On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:09:01 -0800, Nevets wrote: I have a heading style I'm using, and have modified the style's paragraph settings with the "Keep with Next" box checked. However, I still get instances where the heading will be the last line at the bottom of a page. What am I doing wrong? That usually indicates that you have an "empty paragraph" of some other style, such as Normal, following the heading. Since that paragraph doesn't have "Keep with next", it gets separated from the paragraph of visible text after that. Remove the empty paragraph mark. If you want extra space between the heading and the following text, increase the Space After paragraph formatting in the heading style. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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Keep with Next not working
Is it possible that the paragraphs after the heading also have "Keep with next"
turned on, and the whole group is longer than a page? Word has to put a page break somewhere, so it will sometimes ignore a "Keep with next" instruction for that reason. On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:06:01 -0800, Nevets wrote: That's not the problem. The next line is the start of a bulleted list (actually an outline numbered list I've customized the way I want multi-level bullets in the whole document to appear). There is no empty paragraph. I tried to experiment by adding some text with a Normal style in the next line, but the same thing is happening...my heading is alone at the bottom of the previous page. "Jay Freedman" wrote: On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:09:01 -0800, Nevets wrote: I have a heading style I'm using, and have modified the style's paragraph settings with the "Keep with Next" box checked. However, I still get instances where the heading will be the last line at the bottom of a page. What am I doing wrong? That usually indicates that you have an "empty paragraph" of some other style, such as Normal, following the heading. Since that paragraph doesn't have "Keep with next", it gets separated from the paragraph of visible text after that. Remove the empty paragraph mark. If you want extra space between the heading and the following text, increase the Space After paragraph formatting in the heading style. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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Keep with Next not working
Nope, that isn't it either...as I mentioned, the next paragraph is the start
of a bulleted list, and the paragraph formatting of the list doesn't have "keep with next" checked. It's actually quite puzzling if you ask me...I thought I would try to cut and paste the offending segment into another word file and suggest sending it to you so you could look at the formatting yourself. However, when I tried, the "keep with next" in the new document works as expected. As I add lines above, as soon as the "keep with next" line is on it's own at the bottom of the page, it moves itself to the next page. When I try the same manipulation within the original document, it doesn't work. "Jay Freedman" wrote: Is it possible that the paragraphs after the heading also have "Keep with next" turned on, and the whole group is longer than a page? Word has to put a page break somewhere, so it will sometimes ignore a "Keep with next" instruction for that reason. On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:06:01 -0800, Nevets wrote: That's not the problem. The next line is the start of a bulleted list (actually an outline numbered list I've customized the way I want multi-level bullets in the whole document to appear). There is no empty paragraph. I tried to experiment by adding some text with a Normal style in the next line, but the same thing is happening...my heading is alone at the bottom of the previous page. "Jay Freedman" wrote: On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:09:01 -0800, Nevets wrote: I have a heading style I'm using, and have modified the style's paragraph settings with the "Keep with Next" box checked. However, I still get instances where the heading will be the last line at the bottom of a page. What am I doing wrong? That usually indicates that you have an "empty paragraph" of some other style, such as Normal, following the heading. Since that paragraph doesn't have "Keep with next", it gets separated from the paragraph of visible text after that. Remove the empty paragraph mark. If you want extra space between the heading and the following text, increase the Space After paragraph formatting in the heading style. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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Keep with Next not working
Although I've never seen it myself, I've read that it's possible for a Word
document to become "slightly corrupted" -- not badly enough to prevent opening it or working in it, but enough to create some odd and otherwise unexplainable behavior (http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm). The cure for this is to copy everything from the document _except_ the final paragraph mark (or everything in a section except the trailing section break) and paste it into a new document. It seems you've stumbled on this technique yourself. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 11:47:00 -0800, Nevets wrote: Nope, that isn't it either...as I mentioned, the next paragraph is the start of a bulleted list, and the paragraph formatting of the list doesn't have "keep with next" checked. It's actually quite puzzling if you ask me...I thought I would try to cut and paste the offending segment into another word file and suggest sending it to you so you could look at the formatting yourself. However, when I tried, the "keep with next" in the new document works as expected. As I add lines above, as soon as the "keep with next" line is on it's own at the bottom of the page, it moves itself to the next page. When I try the same manipulation within the original document, it doesn't work. "Jay Freedman" wrote: Is it possible that the paragraphs after the heading also have "Keep with next" turned on, and the whole group is longer than a page? Word has to put a page break somewhere, so it will sometimes ignore a "Keep with next" instruction for that reason. On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:06:01 -0800, Nevets wrote: That's not the problem. The next line is the start of a bulleted list (actually an outline numbered list I've customized the way I want multi-level bullets in the whole document to appear). There is no empty paragraph. I tried to experiment by adding some text with a Normal style in the next line, but the same thing is happening...my heading is alone at the bottom of the previous page. "Jay Freedman" wrote: On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:09:01 -0800, Nevets wrote: I have a heading style I'm using, and have modified the style's paragraph settings with the "Keep with Next" box checked. However, I still get instances where the heading will be the last line at the bottom of a page. What am I doing wrong? That usually indicates that you have an "empty paragraph" of some other style, such as Normal, following the heading. Since that paragraph doesn't have "Keep with next", it gets separated from the paragraph of visible text after that. Remove the empty paragraph mark. If you want extra space between the heading and the following text, increase the Space After paragraph formatting in the heading style. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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