ignoring soft returns

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Maiko Hoshino

First of all, thank you in advance for helping me out, and I'm sorry i
the answers I'm looking for has been posted somewhere already.

I'm creating a document in Word (using Office XP) with some chapter
included. My heading contains a style reference, which references th
chapter title.

Some of my Chapter Title is too long to fit in one line
(i.e. "Chapter 1:Introduction to my documentation file")
Naturally, Word will wrap such text automatically
(i.e. "Chapter 1:Introduction to my documentation *wrap* file")
Since I don't like the way Word automatically wrapped it, I put a Sof
Return to break it in two lines to my liking
(i.e. "Chapter 1:Introduction to my *soft break* documentatio
file")

The problem is that I want my heading to be one line, not two. The TO
ignores the Soft Return for me, and I'm thinking that I should be abl
to format the heading to do the same.

Can anyone tell me how I can format my heading so that the Styl
Reference will ignore the Soft Return?

Again, thanks for the help
 
Use a line break (Shift+Enter) instead of a soft return. It will be ignored
in the table of contents and the title will appear to be one line.
 
Suzanne and Mary,

First of all, thanks for the post.

I'm afraid I didn't do a good job explaining my dilemma. My problem i
not in the TOC, but in the Header (I said "heading" in my first post
but I meant the header).

When I insert a soft break (shift+enter) for my chapter title, TO
automatically ignores the break. I want my header to do the same (bu
it won't).

My "odd page" Header has a Style Reference that references the Chapte
Title. Even though the TOC ignores the Soft Break in the Chapter Title
my Header won't ignore them.

Again, thanks for the help and sorry for my confusing explanation.

-Maik
 
What you need is a section break (Insert to Break to Continuous) befor
and after your heading. You can then change the margins of the pag
just for that section (under Page Format in the File menu). Make sur
when you change the margins, you choose "Apply to this section" at th
bottom of the dialogue box.

You can do this anywhere in the document you need to make a change -
even to turn 1 page sideways to accommodate a photo, etc
 
Thanks!

Although this requires a little more work (aside from inserting tw
continuous section breaks), it does the trick! Maybe I'll find out ho
to format Headers to ignore soft-returns, but until then, this will d
just great :)

Thanks a bunch!!

-Maik
 
soft break (shift+enter)
Click to expand...

Thanks for explaining HOW to make a soft return, now I want
to know "why"? What's the difference between the two? I
see the symbols are different, but other than that.... ???



Practice safe eating - always use condiments
 
A hard return creates a new paragraph
A soft return starts a new line within the same paragraph.

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A hard return creates a new paragraph
A soft return starts a new line within the same paragraph.
Click to expand...

Thank you! I knew about the paragraph that hard returns
create (learned it here)... but had never heard of a soft
return before this thread.


Practice safe eating - always use condiments
 
If this approach (and it is a horrible one) actually solves Maiko's problem
(as it evidently does), then I have misunderstood her description. I assumed
she had something like this:

Chapter 1<line break>
Title of the Chapter

If in fact what she has is this:

A Long Chapter Title That Just Goes On and On<line break>
And She Wants to Choose Where It Breaks

then the correct approach is to change the paragraph indents (which does not
require section breaks) not the margins.
--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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If this approach (and it is a horrible one) actually solves Maiko's problem
(as it evidently does), then I have misunderstood her description. I assumed
she had something like this:

Chapter 1<line break>
Title of the Chapter

If in fact what she has is this:

A Long Chapter Title That Just Goes On and On<line break>
And She Wants to Choose Where It Breaks

then the correct approach is to change the paragraph indents (which does not
require section breaks) not the margins.
--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.
 
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