control the enter

[NEWBIE NEED HELP]

I have a 100s pages document, if I press 'ENTER'(line
break) at FIRST page, all page will affected with a blank
line.

How canI control the ENTER KEY STROKE only affect the
current page, not other pages

Thanks very much

Kelvin

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Hi Kelvin,

It sounds like you must have the Header pane open, Click somewhere in the
text on the first page and the use Ctrl+Home to take you to the beginning of
the body of the document and then press Enter.

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Hope this helps
Doug Robbins - Word MVP

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Hi Kelvin,

In that case, it would seem that you are using the Enter key twice to obtain
a space before paragraphs when if you want to do that, you should really
define the formatting of the style that is used for the paragraphs so that
it has the desired space after it.

You might find that one of the "Suppress" settings under
Tools>Options>Compatibilty will cause this empty paragraph to be suppressed.

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interested.

Hope this helps
Doug Robbins - Word MVP

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

AFAIK, none of the "Suppress" settings will suppress an actual empty
paragraph. They will suppress Space Before or the leading above lines with
Exact paragraph spacing. As Doug says, Kelvin, it sounds very much as if
you're pressin Enter twice to create a "blank line" between paragraphs. What
this does is create an empty paragraph, and Word really doesn't like those.
You've already seen one reason: these empty paragraphs can turn up at the
top of a page and create the illusion of a too-wide margin. Another problem
is that, although Word's built-in heading styles are formatted as "Keep with
next," that is useless if the following paragraph is an empty one, since
that won't keep the heading with the text paragraph after the blank one.

What you might do instead is use Ctrl+0 (zero) to add 12 pts Space Before,
which is the equivalent of a blank line at normal text sizes. Or you could
add Space After through the Format | Paragraph dialog. If you need more
space, or paragraphs with and without space, you should be using distinct
paragraph styles for your different types of text.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.mvps.org/word

 

[Dayo Mitchell]

Kelvin, if you haven't already, you might want to turn on NonPrinting
Characters--click the ¶ on the standard toolbar (or ctrl-8, I think), which
will help you see what is going on by showing a lot of gray characters that
denote spaces, tabs, paragraph returns, etc. If you see a lot of gray ¶s,
those are extra blank lines that will affect your formatting.

DM