Articles posted on April 22nd, 2003

Word X: Keep with next / Keep lines together settings not honoured in table cells

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2003 • 1:12 am

If you use tables in Word for page layout and allow table rows to break across pages — which is pretty much required if your table cells contain large amounts of text — then Word will not take into account the Keep with next and Keep lines together settings (in Format>Paragraph…). Instead you can only […]

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Word X: Cutting and pasting search strings

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2003 • 12:53 am

There are several issues with Word X’s Find/Replace dialog. I just encountered one that is pretty representative of the overall carelessness in the design of the application. I have a document with several numbered lists of items. The people who wrote the document used Word’s automatic numbering features, which I carefully avoid myself. (I have […]

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