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MS Office Forum / Word / Long Documents / February 2004Uneven pages with widow/orphan control on
I'm fairly new to word. Trying to typeset a novel with Word XP (2002) so that margins on page bottoms are even, not one or two lines off. No graphics, nothing fancy. Using only 2 fonts and 2 styles to format chapter titles and body text. I want keep widows & orphans controlled. Is there a switch or setting somewhere or points I can jigger subtly to even out the bottom margins? Or am I asking too much of Word and need to go learn a typography software program? Can you help or point me to an answer somewhere? Barry Camroc Press, LLC www.camrocpress.com Hi Barry > I'm fairly new to word. Trying to typeset a novel with Word XP (2002) > so that margins on page bottoms are even, not one or two lines off. [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > margins? Or am I asking too much of Word and need to go learn a > typography software program? That probably depends on what you expect in the end. :-) Word, in contrast to, say, LaTeX, will not change the distance between two lines of text in the same paragraph (from the settings in the underlying style or the paragraph itself). But it can assign the free space at the bottom to the space *between* two paragraphs. That would be a section property and found under File | Page Setup | Layout: Vertical alignment: Justified. Should work all right in a text-only work with lots of paragraphs (I don't like it much with large paragraphs since the gaps can become quite huge then). The setting itself is also in contrast to another DTP "wish", that on double-sided paper, the base lines should be at the same position front and backside ... With only two styles, this would be possible with carefully chosen line hight, leading and spaces before/after. 2cents .bob ..Word-MVP  Signature/"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign \ / X Against HTML / \ in e-mail & news See http://home.zebra.net/~sbarnhill/BottomLine.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) SignatureWords into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. > I'm fairly new to word. Trying to typeset a novel with Word XP (2002) > so that margins on page bottoms are even, not one or two lines off. [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > Camroc Press, LLC > www.camrocpress.com |
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