Block Protect is a feature that I suspect has been requested a lot (though
it doesn't hurt to keep pressure on). I suspect if it were easy to do, it
would have been done already. Word and WordPerfect are structured so
differently (see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/WordVsWordPerfect.htm)
that sometimes it's more difficult than we realize to replicate WP features.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"chadwilliams" wrote in message
...
Thanks Suzanne for the great tip on the Compatibility Option. Now I can
get
the last two lines onto the next page (so I won't have the widowed line)
while maintaining full justification of the line ending with the
shift+return. The only problem now is that if, at a later date, due to
editing the wordflow changes, then that particular paragraph will need to
be
constantly checked. But from what you're telling me, I have no other
choice
unless I leave the widowed line. This problem doesn't exist in
Wordperfect
because you can "block protect" the last 2 lines in a paragraph in a
table.
Hopefully, Word can make that happen too, or in the least, have the
widowed
line option work in tables.
Thanks again.
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
The line break justifies the line (unless you have the Compatibility
Option
"Don't expand characters spaces on a line ending Shift-Return" checked).
The
paragraph break breaks to a new paragraph. In this case you could
probably
accomplish the same thing with two line breaks (to give you an extra
blank
line to push the following line of text to the next page). In other
words,
what you're doing is converting
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Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"chadwilliams" wrote in message
...
I can't figure out how to insert a line break (shift+enter) PLUS a
paragraph
break and yet keep that line fully justified. Can you explain how I
can
do
this please? Thank you.
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
You can prevent the row from breaking and keep the whole paragraph
together
(note that "Keep lines together" will *not* do this). You could
insert a
line break *and* a paragraph break, which would justify your last
line,
but
this can cause problems if the table reflows and you end up with a
line's
space in the middle of your paragraph. It is not at all
satisfactory,
but
that's the way it is with current versions of Word, unfortunately.
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Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"chadwilliams" wrote in
message
...
Sorry... so are you telling me that there is nothing I can do but
leave
that
widowed line where it is????
Do you know of any "work-arounds"??
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
Nope, once you have allowed the row to break, you've given Word
carte
blanche. Neither "Widow/orphan control" nor "Keep lines
together"
has
any
effect in a table cell, and "Keep with next" operates only
between
rows.
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Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"chadwilliams" wrote in
message
...
I have a fully justified paragraph in a cell. The last line
of
that
paragraph now sits alone at the top of the next page. This is
called
a
widowed line and it's unprofessional looking. If I do a "keep
together",
the
whole paragraph goes onto the next page which I don't want. I
only
want
the
last two lines of the paragraph to go onto the top of the next
page.
(In
Wordperfect, you would use a "block protect" and it would keep
the
last 2
lines together. Word doesn't have that feature.) If I use a
return
to
break
the paragraph so that the last 2 lines are on the next page,
then
that
last
line won't be fully justified (and I will have turned that
paragraph
into
2
paragraphs, which I don't want).
So how can I make sure there are no widowed lines in a table?