Re: Word 7 for Windows vs Formatting problems

[Ron Biggs <ronb -at- SAKSON -dot- COM>]

Ouch?  It is painful, but we've learned from much indexing experience
that the only way to reliably predict page breaks in most versions of
Word after version 6 (yes, with hidden text hidden) was to set the page
breaks manually.

-ron
senior editor
sakson & taylor inc
206.545.3608
www.sakson.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roger Mallett [SMTP:roger -at- CSICAL -dot- COM]
> Sent: Friday, April 03, 1998 11:17 AM
> To:   TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject:      Re: Word 7 for Windows vs Formatting problems
>
> Manual page breaks  -- OUCH!!!
>
> With respect to correct/incorrect page numbers being listed in a TOC,
> etc., documents that have hidden text can sometimes cause page breaks
> to
> be funny.  When generating anything that requires page numbering, page
> counts, etc., be sure that the hidden text is not displayed.  To turn
> hidden text off, select Options from the Tools menu, displays the View
> property page and ensure that both Hidden Text and All are unchecked.
>
> An example problem would be if you had "Page X of Y" in a header,
> where
> X is the page code and Y is the numpage code.  Lets say that the
> document is ten pages long when hidden text is displayed, and eight
> pages long when hidden text is not displayed.  If the document is
> printed while the hidden text is displayed, you would only get eight
> pages out of the printer though the header would say there are 10, and
> your TOC might show an item is on page 10 (but prints on page 8).
>
> ---------------------
> Roger Mallett
> Control Systems
> (714) 458-5040 x 239
>
> >----------
> >From:  Ron Biggs[SMTP:ronb -at- SAKSON -dot- COM]
> >Sent:  Friday, April 03, 1998 9:40 AM
> >To:    TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> >Subject:       Re: Word 7 for Windows vs Formatting problems
> >
> >
> >Also, make sure you have manually set *all* pagebreaks.
> >
> >-ron
> >senior editor
> >sakson & taylor inc
> >206.545.3608
> >www.sakson.com
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Walter Hanig [SMTP:wdh -at- NETMANAGE -dot- COM]
> >> Sent: Friday, April 03, 1998 9:02 AM
> >> To:   TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> >> Subject:      Re: Word 7 for Windows vs Formatting problems
> >>
> >> At 08:52 AM 4/3/98 PST, Linda Miller wrote:
> >> >HELP! Our group is very frustrated with Winword 7. We cannot trust
> >> the
> >> >table of contents or index for our manuals. They change
> >> mysteriously!!!!
> >>
> >> I'll make the obvious statement: Don't use master documents; use RD
> >> fields instead to compile TOCs and Indexes from separate files.
> (White
> >> paper available; request offline.)
> >>
> >> On a more practical note, check all your headers and footers in the
> >> index section for "same as previous." When this is
> checked/enabled,
> >> you can lose the column settings or formatting of the section break
> >> (such as odd page).
> >>
> >> Good luck!
> >>
> >> Walter
> >>
> >> Walter Hanig
> >>
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