Re: Spaced Out on Space Above/Below

["Paul Strasser" <paul -dot- strasser -at- windsor-tech -dot- com>]

> My Question - In MS Word, Is there ever any situation in a Technical
> Document when you would want  to insert a hard carriage return (by
pressing
> the enter key). If so, for what purpose?
>
As a matter of fact, I prepared a Word doc yesterday that has hard carriage
returns.  I had to create a Functional Design document (and if I tell you
what's in this functional design document, I'd have to kill you...) that has
multiple chapters.  Each chapter will be completed by a different System
Analyst in Canada or the U.S., so there will be a lot of emailing completed
copies of this document back and forth across the ether.  I included
instructions on how to complete the chapters, then the Heading, then that
"empty" paragraph.  What's nice about the blank line is the way it's set up
for the correct Style.  When the analyst clicks the cursor on that line it's
already in the correct Style, with correct tabs etc.  All they have to do is
write, which is tough enough for them without worrying about such matters as
fonts, font size, tabs, and the whole look-and-feel problem that seems to
bewilder a lot of folks.

I'm not sure if this really is a hard carriage return in a final document,
though.  I'm pretty much creating a "form" to complete:  "Put the cursor in
the line under the Section 3.1.1 and enter the yada-yada-yada (incidentally,
the "yada" is a critical component of our functional designs).  These hard
returns won't be in the final version.


Paul Strasser
Windsor Technologies, Inc.
2569 Park Lane, Suite 200
Lafayette, Colorado 80026
Phone:  303-926-1982
FAX:  303-926-1510
E-mail:  paul -dot- strasser -at- windsor-tech -dot- com



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