number of lines on a word document

[mark_southworth]

Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) I want to produce a long, double-spaced document with the same number of lines on each page, not one that flips to a new page if the end paragraph is too large to fit. Can anyone help?

 

[CyberTaz]

Maintaining a constant number of lines per page is dependent on at least 2
factors:

1- Using the same font & font size throughout, &

2- Turning off Widow/Orphan control in Format> Paragraph - Line & Page
Breaks.

Due to the proportional spacing considerations of modern word processing --
which is more closely akin to typesetting than typewriting -- lines per page
is a little more difficult to control. Observing those 2 constraints should
point you in the right direction.

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Mark:

The short answer is "No." Word processors are designed and engineered to
avoid this Use TextEdit or TextWrangler if you want ASCII documents.

As Bob suggests, you will be fighting Word every line of the way to do this,
because it is designed to avoid it.

Cheers

Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) I want to produce a long,
double-spaced document with the same number of lines on each page, not one
that flips to a new page if the end paragraph is too large to fit. Can anyone
help?

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