Field Formatting Question

[Ray Batig]

This is not a new users question, however, something that people might
find useful.

I have a template that I built. I have created a no button macro which
prompts me to enter the title. This sets up the title in a title style
field. Then I inserted the
Title field in the heading of the second and following pages. What has
happened is that if the title is too long, the title displayed in the
headings has the first portion truncated away and only the last part
remains. Is there a way to expand the title field displayed in the heading
so it either is wider or wraps?

I have included the field imbedded in the heading FYI : { STYLEREF "Title
Cover" \* MERGEFORMAT }

Thanks for your help!

Ray

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

By "plain text," I meant that it is no longer a field. "Plain text" in this
sense can be in any paragraph style.

But I still don't understand why your StyleRef field isn't picking up the
entire title--unless you have broken the title with paragraph marks, which
I'll bet is exactly what's happened since you're getting the *end* of the
title, which would be consistent with its being the most recent paragraph in
the Title Cover style.

If you need to manually break the title over several lines, use line breaks
instead (Shift+Enter). And keep in mind that Word will translate the line
break into a space in the text displayed by the StyleRef field, so don't
leave a space at the end of the line (before the line break), or you'll have
two spaces in the header.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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[Ray Batig]

Suzanne,

You found it! I had typed a return. I removed it and the whole title showed
up. I inserted a text wrapping break to get the title to wrap in a good
place in the header. Thanks again for unraveling this mystery.

Ray

 

[Ray Batig]

Well, what the text wrap did was to allow the title shown in the header
(which got there by a style ref) to wrap into two lines which are
approximately the same length. Without this the first line was about twice
as long as the second one. I sort of blindly tried it and it worked.

Cheers,
Ray

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Interesting. Everything I'd read about the text wrapping break suggested it
had something to do about wrapping around graphics.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

There are a lot of options that would be nice (and have been requested).
"Column break before" would get a lot more use here than "Text wrapping
break before," and users have also requested "Section break before," though
that would be a bit more problematical because of the different flavors of
section breaks. The one I'd really like to see, though, is "Keep with
previous," to keep, say, the Complimentary Close and Signature of a letter
with the last paragraph of text without having to apply "Keep with next" to
that paragraph (which doesn't exist in a template).

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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