[austechwriter] Re: Can anyone help with some numbers?
- From: "Elizabeth Fullerton" <Elizabeth.Fullerton@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 10:10:33 +1000
But this is silly. It defeats the whole purpose of not having empty
paras in a document in the first place. I'm glad to know why I've had
that problem from time to time, but it's ridiculous that we have to do
workarounds in this way.
Yes, I know that I've just made a pointless howl of frustration, but
really, what's the point in having to do everything in such a manual
way. Might as well be using TextPad.
And while I'm on the subject, and it's Friday, if swearing and a bad
attitude doesn't bother you...=20
http://www.robohack.planix.com/~woods/ms-word.sucks.html
-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Glasson [mailto:jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]=20
Sent: Friday, 8 August 2003 10:01 AM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [austechwriter] Re: Can anyone help with some numbers?
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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