You can save a huge amount of time preparing documents longer than a memo by
following the principles underlying Daiya's answer.
Take a look at the article 'Styles and templates -- the keys to consistency
and saving time' starting on page 89 of some notes on the way I use Word for
the Mac, titled "Bend Word to Your Will", which are available as a free
download from the Word MVPs' website
(
http://word.mvps.org/Mac/Bend/BendWordToYourWill.html).
[Note: "Bend Word to your will" is designed to be used electronically and
most subjects are self-contained dictionary-style entries. If you decide to
read more widely than the item I've referred to, it's important to read the
front end of the document -- especially pages 3 and 5 -- so you can select
some Word settings that will allow you to use the document effectively.]
Cheers,
Clive Huggan
Canberra, Australia
(My time zone is 5-11 hours different from the Americas and Europe, so my
follow-on responses to those regions can be delayed)
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Okay. You need to make sure there is not a empty paragraph after your
heading, say, if you hit enter twice or anything to give the heading
some space. Don't do that.
Instead, you should apply the style Heading 1 to a heading, and Heading
1 automatically incoporates the "keep with next" command. If you don't
like how Heading 1 looks, that's fine. Apply it anyhow. Then go to
Format | Style, and Modify the definition of Heading 1 to fit your
taste. Be sure to check the "add to template" box if you want to change
the look of Heading 1 for all documents in the future.
The manual approach would be to use Format | Paragraph to apply "keep
with next". But empty paragraphs caused by hitting enter multiple times
may still cause problems, as it will just keep it with the empty
paragraph that is actually next.
