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Re: Word 2003 - heading style includes start next odd page
Subject:Re: Word 2003 - heading style includes start next odd page From:linda_sims -at- vanguard -dot- com To:"McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com> Date:Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:34:14 -0400
Kevin McLauchlan wrote on 10/22/2007 12:23:16 PM:
> All, after googling the universe - and getting plenty of un-help from
> the delicious Microsoft site - I narrowed my search to Techwr-l. The
> closest thing I found was John Posada's query in 2004. He wanted pretty
> much what I want. We're forced to use Word 2003 here. I'm trying to use
> styles for everything, as a responsible techwriter would.
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> I'm trying to find how I include "start at top of next odd-numbered
> page" (or words/constraints/functions to that effect) as part of a
> style.
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> I can't see how to achieve it via the menus, with respect to paragraph
> styles (like my Chapter style), and I can't see where some other kind of
> style would be more appropriate .
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> The 2004 discussion was approaching the point where John was making his
> desire understood, when he foolishly mentioned how effortless the same
> action was in FM. Somebody (coughDMBrowncough) immediately took that
> opportunity to derail the thread by choosing to construe John's
> context-making remark as Word bashing. No doubt there are other threads
> where discussion was allowed to proceed all the way to the actual
> technique for doing what needs done (NOT manually inserting section
> breaks before each Chapter heading, but rather sensibly automating it
> via a style), but I seem to be in a Google fog this morning and haven't
> found them.
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> Can some kind soul point me, please?
Wouldn't "Page Setup > Layout > Different odd and even" do what you want?
If not, I got nothin'
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