Heh....only in Microsoft Word

[archcommus]

I swear sometimes MS Word is the quirkiest program around. So I'm at the next to the last line of a page, typing "...and the figure can be seen on the following page." However, that sentence carries into the LAST line of the page, which is definitely still valid page territory, however that puts BOTH lines on the next page, rendering my statement "on the following page" untrue. So I change the sentence from "on the following page" to "...and the last figure can be seen below," but then the sentence hops back onto the previous page and I want to say the figure's on the following page again!

Dammit! WTF's a man supposed to do!

 

[iamwiz82]

Page Break is king

 

[archcommus]

Originally posted by: iamwiz82
Page Break is king

The problem is that even though I have one line of typing space left, it decides to move two lines to the next page. If it just used that space it'd be fine.

 

[Kelemvor]

Originally posted by: iamwiz82
Page Break is king

THat's what I'd do too.

 

[PhattyB]

Font Size -1

 

[her209]

PEBKAC

 

[Kelvrick]

Format > Paragraph > Line and Page Breaks > uncheck Widow/Orphan control.

Mess wiht that, and the other couple of options there. Keep lines together, Keep with next, and page break before

 

[archcommus]

Originally posted by: Kelemvor

Originally posted by: iamwiz82
Page Break is king

THat's what I'd do too.

If you mean to use the "figure below" phrase but put a page break before it so that it's not on a different page from the figure, that would put an awkward amount of blank space at the bottom of that first page. Again, the problem is that once I encounter the last line of a page, Word decides to move the party to the next page prematurely.

 

[archcommus]

Originally posted by: Kelvrick
Format > Paragraph > Line and Page Breaks > uncheck Widow/Orphan control.

Mess wiht that, and the other couple of options there. Keep lines together, Keep with next, and page break before

That's probably what I need, thanks.

 

[iamwiz82]

Originally posted by: archcommus

Originally posted by: Kelemvor

Originally posted by: iamwiz82
Page Break is king

THat's what I'd do too.

If you mean to use the "figure below" phrase but put a page break before it so that it's not on a different page from the figure, that would put an awkward amount of blank space at the bottom of that first page. Again, the problem is that once I encounter the last line of a page, Word decides to move the party to the next page prematurely.

I would then take the time to make a BS sentence to lengthen that page. I did that a lot with my thesis.

 

[IronWing]

Originally posted by: Kelvrick
Format > Paragraph > Line and Page Breaks > uncheck Widow/Orphan control.

:thumbsup:


Now I just have to remember where to find the setting to turn off the feature where Word helps you guess which text you're trying to select. It has a special AI function that always gets it wrong.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Keep lines together and/or keep with next options work for me.

 

[jiggahertz]

Use LaTeX instead.

 

[Freshgeardude]

OCD much? calm down its a line

 

[ISAslot]

I go in and un-check all that auto format crap enabled by default. Makes word much more tolerable.