Re: Page break as local formatting permitted?

[SB <sylvia -dot- braunstein -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Well, I may not have been clea on this, he wants to add the page break to
one heading occasionally (wwhen needed) but not to the whole style. My
concern is that as soon as you will need to update the styles, everything
will get messed up. I have experience that in the past. However, he says
that "we don't need to update the syles".

On 6/26/08, Jay Maechtlen <techwriter -at- covad -dot- net> wrote:
>
> SB wrote:
>
>> There was this long thread about the best way to do a page break in MS
>> Word
>> (we are working with Word 2003).
>>
>> The new technical writer feels that it is permitted to do a page break
>> "before" as part of a heading style but I told him that this is
>> essentially
>> local formatting and therefore, we should not use that. He said that at
>> times, local formatting is permitted.
>>
>> What is the general opinion about this?
>>
>
> I have no problem with including 'page break before' in a heading style.
> In fact, when you add it to the style it is no longer 'local formatting',
> right?
>
> That's usually a reasonable way to format chapter heads or major section
> heads.
>
> I almost always assign 'keep with next' to heading styles.
>
> imnsho
>
> Jay
>
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