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MS Office Forum / Word / Page Layout / January 2006Line Break vs. Section Break vs. enter
Hi, I'd like to know the actual definitions of some of the terms in Microsoft Word. For instance, what is the difference between a line break and just pressing enter? What is a section break? Are their any other related terms, and, if so, what are their definitions. >I'd like to know the actual definitions of some of the terms in Microsoft >Word. For instance, what is the difference between a line break and just >pressing enter? > >What is a section break? Are their any other related terms, and, if so, what >are their definitions. For starters, go read http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm. That will tell you what the breaks look like when you turn on nonprinting characters, so you can recognize them in your documents. The most basic one is the paragraph mark (¶), which you get by pressing Enter. Each paragraph can have different values of any of the settings in the Format > Paragraph dialog and the Format > Tabs dialog. A manual line break, which you get by pressing Shift+Enter, forces a new line without starting a new paragraph. That means all the same paragraph formatting settings take effect on both sides of the line break. A section break, shown by a double dotted line containing the words "Section Break", creates a new section. Each section can have different values of margins, page orientation, headers and footers, and page numbering. There are four kinds of section breaks: - Continuous, which doesn't start a new page - Next Page, which starts a new page - Odd Page and Even page, which start a page of that type You insert these with the Insert > Break dialog. Besides these, there are: - Manual page break (Ctrl+Enter) forces a new page but not a new section. - Manual column break (Ctrl+Shift+Enter) forces a new column in multicolumn (newspaper-style) text. - Text-wrapping break, which is a bit obscure. See the description in the NonPrintChars article. -- 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. Thanks for your help. The article that you directed me to was extremely useful. I have a question about a phrase that was written in the article, though. It said, "...you should not be ending lines with paragraph breaks, nor should you be using "empty paragraphs" to create "blank lines" between paragraphs (in most cases this is better accomplished with Space Before or After)." Could you explain the last little bit - how do you get the blank lines between paragraphs, not using the paragraph breaks? > >I'd like to know the actual definitions of some of the terms in Microsoft > >Word. For instance, what is the difference between a line break and just [quoted text clipped - 42 lines] > Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the > newsgroup so all may benefit. Try this experiment. Type or paste several paragraphs in Normal style. Do not include empty paragraphs between them. Select the text and press Ctrl+0. This shortcut adds 12 points Space Before to the paragraphs. You'll see that this has the effect of creating a "blank line" between the paragraphs. In the Format Paragraph dialog you can add as much (or as little) Space Before or After as you like. Although the spin box shows increments of 6 points, you can type in exact amounts (72 points = 1 inch).  SignatureSuzanne 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. > Thanks for your help. The article that you directed me to was extremely useful. > [quoted text clipped - 54 lines] > > Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the > > newsgroup so all may benefit. Is there any other way of doing that? What is and how do I get to the Format Paragraph Dialog? Thanks. > Try this experiment. Type or paste several paragraphs in Normal style. Do > not include empty paragraphs between them. Select the text and press Ctrl+0. [quoted text clipped - 66 lines] > > > Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the > > > newsgroup so all may benefit. Is there any other way of doing what? You get to the Format Paragraph dialog by choosing Paragraph on the Format menu or by right-clicking and choosing Paragraph... SignatureSuzanne 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. > Is there any other way of doing that? > [quoted text clipped - 72 lines] > > > > Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the > > > > newsgroup so all may benefit. Thanks for your help. > Is there any other way of doing what? > [quoted text clipped - 96 lines] > > > > > Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the > > > > > newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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