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Set right-hand margin in outline view?
In outline view, my text wraps WAY inside the document right-hand margin that I set using File/Page Setup--it's as if somehow going to outline view changes the right-hand margin to an inch and a half inside the right "edge of the paper" instead of where I need it to be. Worse, it prints like that. Lines wrap much too soon on paper also. (The document I'm working on is meant to be structured as an outline in its final form and printed that way, and the right margin needs to be correct in outline format.) If I set "wrap to window" as suggested in other messages, that changes the way the document appears on screen but has no effect on printing--lines still wrap too soon in the printed version. Is there anything I can do to set the right-hand text wrap point correctly in outline view? Setting it correctly in the graphical editor would be great, but getting it right on paper is a necessity. Info: this is Word 2003. I'm using styles to format the various heading levels, and they're all working fine. I can't find anything about right-hand margins anywhere in Modify Style. Thanks very much! |
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document I'm working on is meant to be structured as an outline in its final form and printed that way, and the right margin needs to be correct in outline format.) That's your chief problem. Outline view is a way of looking at a document and managing its organization, not (primarily) a way of formatting a document. Consequently, it is not meant to be WYSIWYG. If you want a document to look like an outline, then you need to apply an outline numbering scheme with numbering levels linked to paragraph styles you have defined appropriately (see http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/numb...umbering.html). What you see in Print Layout view will then look like an outline and will print as you see it. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "James P. H. Fuller" wrote in message ... In outline view, my text wraps WAY inside the document right-hand margin that I set using File/Page Setup--it's as if somehow going to outline view changes the right-hand margin to an inch and a half inside the right "edge of the paper" instead of where I need it to be. Worse, it prints like that. Lines wrap much too soon on paper also. (The document I'm working on is meant to be structured as an outline in its final form and printed that way, and the right margin needs to be correct in outline format.) If I set "wrap to window" as suggested in other messages, that changes the way the document appears on screen but has no effect on printing--lines still wrap too soon in the printed version. Is there anything I can do to set the right-hand text wrap point correctly in outline view? Setting it correctly in the graphical editor would be great, but getting it right on paper is a necessity. Info: this is Word 2003. I'm using styles to format the various heading levels, and they're all working fine. I can't find anything about right-hand margins anywhere in Modify Style. Thanks very much! |
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Set right-hand margin in outline view?
Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
If you want a document to look like an outline, then you need to apply an outline numbering scheme with numbering levels linked to paragraph styles you have defined appropriately (see http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/numb...umbering.html). What you see in Print Layout view will then look like an outline and will print as you see it. OK, thank you. I clearly need to study the whole topic some more. I've already seen (and printed, and hi-lited, and scribbled all over) the shaunakelly.com page; it's actually where I got the instructions I used for applying styles to my headings. Like a chom, they voik--major hat tip to Ms. Kelly. But before seeing that page I started with "Create an outline from scratch" (http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/wo...879981033.aspx) which begins: 1. In a new document, switch to outline view. 2. Type each heading and press ENTER. That did sort of give me the mindset that you create an outline in outline view. Then, reading the shaunakelly.com page, I missed the point that we were now still talking about outlines but not still talking about outline view. N.b. the microsoft.com page I linked up above ends with... 5. When you're satisfied with the organization, switch to normal view, print layout view, or Web layout view to add detailed body text and graphics. ....which appears to leave one or two things (or possibly 37 things) unsaid, because when I work that way the only text entities that display all tabbed over in outline style are the headings. The body text blocks I type in are not attached to or lined up with the headings I typed them under, they're all justified over to the left margin just like an ordinary letter or what have you. (that's in normal view. Return to outline view and blocks of body text align with their headings just fine, but now we're back to the right hand margin problem :-) Is any of that related to what your reply addresses? Could you possibly point me to a site (or book, or anywhere I can RTFM) about creating the kind of document I need: outline style, but containing lots of body text blocks, each aligned with the heading level it appears under, and (per your post) not depending on outline view? Thanks very much for your help! |
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If you're using numbered heading styles with progressively larger indents,
then you'll need to create styles for your body paragraphs, one for each level, with the required left indent. You may find it convenient to start with the built-in List Continue styles, which have indents in 0.25" increments. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "James P. H. Fuller" wrote in message ... Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: If you want a document to look like an outline, then you need to apply an outline numbering scheme with numbering levels linked to paragraph styles you have defined appropriately (see http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/numb...umbering.html). What you see in Print Layout view will then look like an outline and will print as you see it. OK, thank you. I clearly need to study the whole topic some more. I've already seen (and printed, and hi-lited, and scribbled all over) the shaunakelly.com page; it's actually where I got the instructions I used for applying styles to my headings. Like a chom, they voik--major hat tip to Ms. Kelly. But before seeing that page I started with "Create an outline from scratch" (http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/wo...879981033.aspx) which begins: 1. In a new document, switch to outline view. 2. Type each heading and press ENTER. That did sort of give me the mindset that you create an outline in outline view. Then, reading the shaunakelly.com page, I missed the point that we were now still talking about outlines but not still talking about outline view. N.b. the microsoft.com page I linked up above ends with... 5. When you're satisfied with the organization, switch to normal view, print layout view, or Web layout view to add detailed body text and graphics. ...which appears to leave one or two things (or possibly 37 things) unsaid, because when I work that way the only text entities that display all tabbed over in outline style are the headings. The body text blocks I type in are not attached to or lined up with the headings I typed them under, they're all justified over to the left margin just like an ordinary letter or what have you. (that's in normal view. Return to outline view and blocks of body text align with their headings just fine, but now we're back to the right hand margin problem :-) Is any of that related to what your reply addresses? Could you possibly point me to a site (or book, or anywhere I can RTFM) about creating the kind of document I need: outline style, but containing lots of body text blocks, each aligned with the heading level it appears under, and (per your post) not depending on outline view? Thanks very much for your help! |
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