[bksvol-discuss] Re: Question about Page Setup in Word.
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 18:51:28 -0700 (PDT)
Ah.... I had a feeling I should probably leave your
question for someone else to answer (smile). I use
Word, which is why I referred to Document in the
Format file, but of course I don't know anything about
Kurzweill.
Cindy
-- Paula and James Muysenberg
<outofsightlife@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi, Cindy,
>
> I bribe--I mean, pay--my kids to help fix books,
> before I submit them
> (smile). I edit in K1000, but of course, they use
> Word. Other volunteers on
> the list have pointed out that unless you set Paper
> Size to a large number,
> Word will put page breaks where they don't belong.
> To me that seems easier,
> since you only have to change one setting one time.
>
> When we change Paper Size, however, Word asks if
> we want to fix the
> margins. Since, as you mentioned, the goal is not to
> print anything, I'm
> wondering if the answer should be No. I'm just not
> sure how answering No to
> this prompt affects the finished product.
>
> Thanks,
> Paula
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2005 7:06 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Question about Page
> Setup in Word.
>
>
> > Paula,
> >
> > Are you talking about printing? or validating and
> > leaving the file on your computer or uploading it?
> >
> > I only use Page Set-up if I'm going to print
> > something, and then I check Print Preview to see
> if
> > the margins I've set will allow everything to be
> > showing or will be cut off. As long as everything
> will
> > be printed, I answer No.
> >
> > When I'm validating, I don' t use Page Set-up but
> go
> > to Document in the Format file and use that to set
> > both side and top-and-bottom margins in order to
> make
> > the page breaks come out where they do in the
> book.
> > Occasionally, but rarely, I've had to use smaller
> > font, or a different font that maybe has smaller
> > letters or less space between letters. I've never
> made
> > a top or bottom margin less than .5, but I suppose
> one
> > could.
> >
> > I have found that, especially when there is a lot
> of
> > dialog, one has to indent between paragraphs
> rather
> > than skip a line.
> >
> > Once or twice, in all the validating I've done
> over
> > the past two and a half (I think) years, I've
> moved a
> > last line from one page to the top of the next,
> when
> > absolutely nothing else worked. I didn't think
> that
> > was any worse that moving one half of a hyphenated
> > word to anoher page to join its other half.
> >
> > Cindy
> >
> >
> > -- Paula and James Muysenberg
> > <outofsightlife@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Several people on this list have explained
> how
> > > to go to Page Setup in
> > > the Word File menu, and lengthen Paper Size, so
> Word
> > > doesn't put in unwanted
> > > page breaks. My question is, when the prompt
> comes
> > > up about fixing margins,
> > > do you answer Yes or No?
> > >
> > > TIA,
> > > Paula
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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