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Old July 17th, 2004, 11:45 PM
Suzanne S. Barnhill
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Default Conditional End of Page Break

Okay, I've posted a suggestion. This NG is not among those currently offered
by the Web portal, so I posted in word.pagelayout. I *think* this link will
take you directly to that post:
http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...6-d798690820a3

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Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
FWIW, I have protested this illogical design, and there's a chance it

might
be changed in a future version if enough people express an interest in and
desire for more logical behavior. A feature that has frequently been
requested, as well, is a "Keep with previous" setting so that a signature
block could always be kept with the previous paragraph without having to
format a specific paragraph as "Keep with next." If I remember, I'll post
this as a suggestion through the Office Community Web portal, and users

can
vote on it.

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Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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so
all may benefit.

"Tracy" wrote in message
.77...
Why so it does - I'll be dipsy doodled! I guess I never thought about

it
because people I have worked with have usually just been concerned with
sending the signature block to the next page by itself and not with
specifically what goes with the signature block.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in
:

It is interesting to see that you have the same expectation I used to
have about this: that "Word will push a couple of lines of it to the
page with the signature block." What Word actually does is push the
*entire paragraph* (no matter how long) to the next page. In effect,
"Keep with next" here activates "Keep lines together." Although I
consider this behavior entirely illogical and unexpected, apparently
it is by design. sigh




  #12  
Old July 19th, 2004, 08:23 PM
CJH
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Default Conditional End of Page Break

You're right, that's not what I'm looking for. Thanks
anyway.

-----Original Message-----
The macro would have to resort to breaking the paragraph

into two paragraphs
by typing a paragraph mark at the point where you want

the page to break. I
don't think that's what you want.

cjd


"CJH" wrote in

message
...
Actually, what I really want is the WP Conditional End

of
Page which allowed you to set how many lines to keep
together (i.e. 8). I was hoping that because I'm still
learning Word, it was someplace that I just wasn't
looking yet. Don't suppose there's a macro out there
that some bright soul has created that will do the same
thing? Thanks for all the help.

-----Original Message-----
What you are looking for is the equivalent of Block
Protect in WordPerfect and, unfortunately, Word does

not
have such a feature. Perhaps you can email them and

ask
them to create one!


-----Original Message-----
Thanks so much for your help. So far, so good. In
keeping with this theme though, I find the document

will
still put a page break between the last line of the
paragraph and the signature block style. Is there

way
to
make sure that 2 lines of text stay with the rest of

the
signature block, including the empty space before the
signature line?

-----Original Message-----
For the first question, set Keep with next on the
Heading style and
Widow/orphan control on the style used for body

text.
For the second question, the Widow/orphan control
setting can be used to
keep at least two lines of a paragraph together on

the
next page, and Keep
with next will keep it with the signature block.

Keep
lines together will
force the whole paragraph to move to the next page

if
any part of it won't
fit on the previous page, so that is not what you

want.

cjd


"CJH" wrote in
message
. ..
I work with large documents with headings and
signature
blocks. I want the headings to stay on the same

page
with at least 2 lines of text in the following
paragraph
and I want the signature block to be on the same

page
with at least 2 lines from the preceding

paragraph.
I'm using a style for the headings. How do I tell
that
style to move the heading to the next page if it

can't
fit at least 2 lines of text in the following
paragraph
at the bottom of the page?
Also, when I try to use Format Paragraph Line

and
Page
Breaks Keep With Next or Keep Lines Together for

the
signature block problem, it moves the entire

paragraph
instead of just the last 2 lines, to the next

page.
Obviously, I'm missing something.

Your help is appreciated.

CJH


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  #13  
Old July 19th, 2004, 08:28 PM
CJH
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Default Conditional End of Page Break

Too bad. It looks like I'll have to do it manually.
Thanks for the info. I even tried changing my signature
style for a 24 pt spacing before (and don't add space
between paragraphs of the same style) hoping it would
recognize the entire style as one paragraph, but no such
luck. Thanks any way.

-----Original Message-----
You can directly format that last paragraph before the

signature block
as Keep With Next and Word will push a couple of lines

of it to the page
with the signature block. Note that Word defines a

paragraph as
anything that ends with a paragraph mark, i.e., any

place you have
pressed Enter. So if you have used returns to insert

spacing between
the last paragraph of the document and the signature

block, Keep With
Next will instruct Word to keep your paragraph on the

same page as the
blank line below it, not on the same page as the

signature block.


"CJH" wrote in

news:2dd9101c46a9a
:

Thanks so much for your help. So far, so good. In
keeping with this theme though, I find the document

will
still put a page break between the last line of the
paragraph and the signature block style. Is there way

to
make sure that 2 lines of text stay with the rest of

the
signature block, including the empty space before the
signature line?

-----Original Message-----
For the first question, set Keep with next on the

Heading style and
Widow/orphan control on the style used for body text.
For the second question, the Widow/orphan control

setting can be used to
keep at least two lines of a paragraph together on the

next page, and Keep
with next will keep it with the signature block. Keep

lines together will
force the whole paragraph to move to the next page if

any part of it won't
fit on the previous page, so that is not what you want.

cjd


"CJH" wrote in

message
. ..
I work with large documents with headings and

signature
blocks. I want the headings to stay on the same page
with at least 2 lines of text in the following

paragraph
and I want the signature block to be on the same page
with at least 2 lines from the preceding paragraph.
I'm using a style for the headings. How do I tell

that
style to move the heading to the next page if it

can't
fit at least 2 lines of text in the following

paragraph
at the bottom of the page?
Also, when I try to use Format Paragraph Line and

Page
Breaks Keep With Next or Keep Lines Together for the
signature block problem, it moves the entire

paragraph
instead of just the last 2 lines, to the next page.
Obviously, I'm missing something.

Your help is appreciated.

CJH


.


.

  #14  
Old July 19th, 2004, 09:52 PM
Suzanne S. Barnhill
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Default Conditional End of Page Break

You can keep the last paragraph of a letter (all of it, unfortunately) with
the signature block as follows:

Last paragraph (apply "Keep with next")

Complimentary Close (format this style with some Space Before and After and
"Keep with next")

Signature (format this style with "Keep with next" [and Space Before if you
didn't use Space After on the Complimentary Close])

You should allow the equivalent of three to four lines' space (depending on
the size of your signature) between the Complimentary Close and the
Signature. This works out to about 36-48 pts Space Before or After.

The tricky part is that you cannot make KWN part of the style used for the
Body Text of the letter. You can either use a Body Text Last style for the
last paragraph or apply KWN manually (easy to do with a toolbar button you
can add from Tools | Customize), but if the last paragraph is deleted or
another is added after it, you still have to manipulate this manually.
Admittedly, this is not a good solution, which is why a "Keep with previous"
setting would be so helpful.

--
Suzanne 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.

"CJH" wrote in message
...
Too bad. It looks like I'll have to do it manually.
Thanks for the info. I even tried changing my signature
style for a 24 pt spacing before (and don't add space
between paragraphs of the same style) hoping it would
recognize the entire style as one paragraph, but no such
luck. Thanks any way.

-----Original Message-----
You can directly format that last paragraph before the

signature block
as Keep With Next and Word will push a couple of lines

of it to the page
with the signature block. Note that Word defines a

paragraph as
anything that ends with a paragraph mark, i.e., any

place you have
pressed Enter. So if you have used returns to insert

spacing between
the last paragraph of the document and the signature

block, Keep With
Next will instruct Word to keep your paragraph on the

same page as the
blank line below it, not on the same page as the

signature block.


"CJH" wrote in

news:2dd9101c46a9a
:

Thanks so much for your help. So far, so good. In
keeping with this theme though, I find the document

will
still put a page break between the last line of the
paragraph and the signature block style. Is there way

to
make sure that 2 lines of text stay with the rest of

the
signature block, including the empty space before the
signature line?

-----Original Message-----
For the first question, set Keep with next on the
Heading style and
Widow/orphan control on the style used for body text.
For the second question, the Widow/orphan control
setting can be used to
keep at least two lines of a paragraph together on the
next page, and Keep
with next will keep it with the signature block. Keep
lines together will
force the whole paragraph to move to the next page if
any part of it won't
fit on the previous page, so that is not what you want.

cjd


"CJH" wrote in
message
. ..
I work with large documents with headings and

signature
blocks. I want the headings to stay on the same page
with at least 2 lines of text in the following
paragraph
and I want the signature block to be on the same page
with at least 2 lines from the preceding paragraph.
I'm using a style for the headings. How do I tell

that
style to move the heading to the next page if it

can't
fit at least 2 lines of text in the following

paragraph
at the bottom of the page?
Also, when I try to use Format Paragraph Line and
Page
Breaks Keep With Next or Keep Lines Together for the
signature block problem, it moves the entire

paragraph
instead of just the last 2 lines, to the next page.
Obviously, I'm missing something.

Your help is appreciated.

CJH


.


.


  #15  
Old July 19th, 2004, 10:10 PM
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Default Conditional End of Page Break

You may be able to use or adapt this for your signature
block issue.

I have a standard paragraph I use before my signature
block. I was able to tweak the wording so that the last
two lines fit in the row of a table (with the previous
lines in the row above). Rather than signature styles, I
then put my signature block in the table rows below (using
Borders/Shading to make the lines for the signatures and
Cell Alignment to make the names appear beneath the
lines). Selecting the entire row with the last two lines
and then hitting "Format/Paragraph/Keep With Next" keeps
that row with the signature block.

-----Original Message-----
Too bad. It looks like I'll have to do it manually.
Thanks for the info. I even tried changing my signature
style for a 24 pt spacing before (and don't add space
between paragraphs of the same style) hoping it would
recognize the entire style as one paragraph, but no such
luck. Thanks any way.

-----Original Message-----
You can directly format that last paragraph before the

signature block
as Keep With Next and Word will push a couple of lines

of it to the page
with the signature block. Note that Word defines a

paragraph as
anything that ends with a paragraph mark, i.e., any

place you have
pressed Enter. So if you have used returns to insert

spacing between
the last paragraph of the document and the signature

block, Keep With
Next will instruct Word to keep your paragraph on the

same page as the
blank line below it, not on the same page as the

signature block.


"CJH" wrote in

news:2dd9101c46a9a
:

Thanks so much for your help. So far, so good. In
keeping with this theme though, I find the document

will
still put a page break between the last line of the
paragraph and the signature block style. Is there way

to
make sure that 2 lines of text stay with the rest of

the
signature block, including the empty space before the
signature line?

-----Original Message-----
For the first question, set Keep with next on the
Heading style and
Widow/orphan control on the style used for body text.
For the second question, the Widow/orphan control
setting can be used to
keep at least two lines of a paragraph together on the
next page, and Keep
with next will keep it with the signature block. Keep
lines together will
force the whole paragraph to move to the next page if
any part of it won't
fit on the previous page, so that is not what you want.

cjd


"CJH" wrote in
message
.. .
I work with large documents with headings and

signature
blocks. I want the headings to stay on the same page
with at least 2 lines of text in the following
paragraph
and I want the signature block to be on the same page
with at least 2 lines from the preceding paragraph.
I'm using a style for the headings. How do I tell

that
style to move the heading to the next page if it

can't
fit at least 2 lines of text in the following

paragraph
at the bottom of the page?
Also, when I try to use Format Paragraph Line and
Page
Breaks Keep With Next or Keep Lines Together for the
signature block problem, it moves the entire

paragraph
instead of just the last 2 lines, to the next page.
Obviously, I'm missing something.

Your help is appreciated.

CJH


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