Help with inserting forced page break in Word 2004

[Guest]

Greetings!

I'm running Word 2004 in 10.4.2 on one computer and in 10.3.9 on
another. I have a document that I am paginating, and in three or four
spots I want to insert a forced page break in the middle of a justified
paragraph. Unfortunately, this automatically places a carriage return at
the end of the page, spoiling the line justification. I can delete that
carriage return, but the line still doesn't justify. (In Normal view it
appears to be justified, but in Page Layout, Print Preview, and in
actual printed output it is not justified.)

Can anybody tell me what is happening, and how to avoid it? This
behavior did not occur in the version of Word I truly like, 5.1a.

As a workaround, I would (grudgingly) be willing to end the page one
line earlier, use Shift-Return followed by a carriage return, which I
would expect to force the last visible line of the paragraph to be
justified. Unfortunately, when Shift-Return is added to this paragraph,
it de-indents the line it stands at the end of!!! That's truly
unacceptable behavior. I *need* Shift-Return sometimes to force
non-alphabetic symbols to stay together.

The Style this paragraph is marked in includes justification, so there's
no conflict between underlying style setting and some kind of manual
override.

Thanks in advance for any informed suggestions about this problem! I am
truly at my wits' end.

George

 

[Elliott Roper]

Greetings!

I'm running Word 2004 in 10.4.2 on one computer and in 10.3.9 on
another. I have a document that I am paginating, and in three or four
spots I want to insert a forced page break in the middle of a justified
paragraph. Unfortunately, this automatically places a carriage return at
the end of the page, spoiling the line justification. I can delete that
carriage return, but the line still doesn't justify. (In Normal view it
appears to be justified, but in Page Layout, Print Preview, and in
actual printed output it is not justified.)

Can anybody tell me what is happening, and how to avoid it? This
behavior did not occur in the version of Word I truly like, 5.1a.

As a workaround, I would (grudgingly) be willing to end the page one
line earlier, use Shift-Return followed by a carriage return, which I
would expect to force the last visible line of the paragraph to be
justified. Unfortunately, when Shift-Return is added to this paragraph,
it de-indents the line it stands at the end of!!! That's truly
unacceptable behavior. I *need* Shift-Return sometimes to force
non-alphabetic symbols to stay together.

The Style this paragraph is marked in includes justification, so there's
no conflict between underlying style setting and some kind of manual
override.

Thanks in advance for any informed suggestions about this problem! I am
truly at my wits' end.

If you really must do that, uncheck Preferences->Compatibility "Don't
expand character spaces on the line ending shift-return."
Then split the page with shift-ret ctrl-ret. You can then
forward-delete the paragraph mark that ctrl-ret places immediately
before the page break.

Yechh! It is toe-curling!