[austechwriter] Re: Can anyone help with some numbers?
- From: Jon Glasson <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2003 10:01:23 +1000
Janet - the blank para's don't achieve anything in and of themselves. They
just make it more likely that when you (or another writer) go to add text
after a heading you will start in one of the blank para's rather than
putting the insertion point at the end of the heading and hitting return. As
Melanie describes, the problem occurs because of the hidden bookmarks Word
inserts around the heading when you first cross-ref it. Therefore, you need
to get into the habit of putting the blank para's in before you cross-ref to
the heading (and as you never know which headings these will be, just put
blanks after every one you create). It helps if you use heading styles that
define the next para as body text, so you don't end up with blank heading
paras.
jon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Janet Taylor" <jtaylor@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 9:37 AM
Subject: [austechwriter] Re: Can anyone help with some numbers?
> Jon,
> Do you mean that we should leave some blank paragraphs after each heading?
> Melanie,
> Unfortunately, the document isn't mine and the problem is worse when we
> cross reference to bookmarks because:
> - some of the authors don't realise that there is a bookmark and include
the
> heading in that, or
> - the bookmark is not put over any text, so there is no text to pull into
> the launch site. (This method of inserting bookmarks is the author's
> favourite and she's a much more experienced tech writer than me.)
>
> Thanks for your advice though.
>
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