Hi all, I had a quick question.
To those of you who use Word to write, I'm having a formatting problem in some cases. Let me try to explain, because I know my way around the program for the most part, but I have a few specific issues I hope you can help with.
First, I do a lot of cutting and pasting. Sometimes it's just around one document, but more often, I'll take things from an old document and then paste them into a revision because it makes editing easier to start with "something" and edit from there. When I do that, I sometimes have different formatting that comes along with the pasted portion. Even if I select "match destination formatting" which confuses me. Is there any way to simply change a section to match the formatting of another section without reformatting the whole document with Select All and then selecting everything specific? As in, I'd like to format every section to match, but I don't want to have to redo all the formatting I've chosen that doesn't match the body of the text. Things like centered type, italics, extra spaces between chapters, etc..
The next issue is with the last lines of pages. I don't know what it's called (I thought it was widows and orphans, but now I'm not sure), but basically, when I get to the bottom of a page, if the line I'm typing is more than a single line (all that'll fit), it moves both lines to the next page. The program will only allow me to keep text on the first page if it fits within the page boundaries, and if it doesn't, it'll take sometimes two or three lines and move them all to the next page. Which is seriously annoying if you're counting pages because agents request 30 for a query or whatever.
Is that a widows and orphans problem, or do I need to look elsewhere? And if it is a widows and orphans issue, which selection do I have to click to just let each line fall where it may on my pages, because this sucks and I'd like the pages to all look uniform, even if it means that only the last three words of a sentence ends up on the next page. The reason why is because I do cutting in stages and things move frequently, especially when I cut a few paragraphs here or there, or whatever.
THANKS!
To those of you who use Word to write, I'm having a formatting problem in some cases. Let me try to explain, because I know my way around the program for the most part, but I have a few specific issues I hope you can help with.
First, I do a lot of cutting and pasting. Sometimes it's just around one document, but more often, I'll take things from an old document and then paste them into a revision because it makes editing easier to start with "something" and edit from there. When I do that, I sometimes have different formatting that comes along with the pasted portion. Even if I select "match destination formatting" which confuses me. Is there any way to simply change a section to match the formatting of another section without reformatting the whole document with Select All and then selecting everything specific? As in, I'd like to format every section to match, but I don't want to have to redo all the formatting I've chosen that doesn't match the body of the text. Things like centered type, italics, extra spaces between chapters, etc..
The next issue is with the last lines of pages. I don't know what it's called (I thought it was widows and orphans, but now I'm not sure), but basically, when I get to the bottom of a page, if the line I'm typing is more than a single line (all that'll fit), it moves both lines to the next page. The program will only allow me to keep text on the first page if it fits within the page boundaries, and if it doesn't, it'll take sometimes two or three lines and move them all to the next page. Which is seriously annoying if you're counting pages because agents request 30 for a query or whatever.
Is that a widows and orphans problem, or do I need to look elsewhere? And if it is a widows and orphans issue, which selection do I have to click to just let each line fall where it may on my pages, because this sucks and I'd like the pages to all look uniform, even if it means that only the last three words of a sentence ends up on the next page. The reason why is because I do cutting in stages and things move frequently, especially when I cut a few paragraphs here or there, or whatever.
THANKS!