G
Gerry Rudolf
Situation: Two column text. A paragraph in the right
column has a certain left indentation (here 5 mm, but it
could be anything). An object (floating picture or table
in frame) is positioned to the right of that paragraph
(for example in the horizontal center of the document),
pushing this paragraph to the right.
Error: The 5 mm indentation should be kept as an
additional space between the text and the object, but as
soon as the floating object intrudes into the column's
realm (that is, already at 0.1 mm), the left indentation
collapses in the wysiwyg rendering. All printouts are
correct, but do not conform with what can be seen on the
screen.
Problem: Apart from being irritating -- the hyphenation is
apparently done according to the theoretical, but
invisible indentation - it can lead to the fact that the
number of lines of that paragraph in wysiwyg rendering
does not conform with the number of lines it has in proper
printing rendering. Thus, in many cases there are one or
several lines more on this page than there should be. The
next page, however, starts with the correct line, as if
the line breaks on the prior page were made properly -
provided Word has refreshed the page breaks. Thus, it
happens that one (or even several) line(s) show up double
on the wysiwyg screen, once at the end of the faulty page,
and again at the beginning on the next page. The whole
error leads to Word toggling the doubled line forth and
back, depending on what the page break status is. Thus, it
can happen that the line and page breaks of an entire
document get unstable. If the paragraph with indentation
spreads over to the next page, several words, which are
rendered on the first page, but should not be there, show
up on the next page as well. Here, too, Word gets confused
and toggles these words forth and back. Sometimes they are
on the first page, where they should not be, but you
cannot even edit them there, as the cursor goes invisible,
since after all they are supposed to be on the other page.
Very aggravating, indeed!
This error has been a part of Word since Word for Windows
1.0, yes, since 1991!
There is no workaround - or is there?
column has a certain left indentation (here 5 mm, but it
could be anything). An object (floating picture or table
in frame) is positioned to the right of that paragraph
(for example in the horizontal center of the document),
pushing this paragraph to the right.
Error: The 5 mm indentation should be kept as an
additional space between the text and the object, but as
soon as the floating object intrudes into the column's
realm (that is, already at 0.1 mm), the left indentation
collapses in the wysiwyg rendering. All printouts are
correct, but do not conform with what can be seen on the
screen.
Problem: Apart from being irritating -- the hyphenation is
apparently done according to the theoretical, but
invisible indentation - it can lead to the fact that the
number of lines of that paragraph in wysiwyg rendering
does not conform with the number of lines it has in proper
printing rendering. Thus, in many cases there are one or
several lines more on this page than there should be. The
next page, however, starts with the correct line, as if
the line breaks on the prior page were made properly -
provided Word has refreshed the page breaks. Thus, it
happens that one (or even several) line(s) show up double
on the wysiwyg screen, once at the end of the faulty page,
and again at the beginning on the next page. The whole
error leads to Word toggling the doubled line forth and
back, depending on what the page break status is. Thus, it
can happen that the line and page breaks of an entire
document get unstable. If the paragraph with indentation
spreads over to the next page, several words, which are
rendered on the first page, but should not be there, show
up on the next page as well. Here, too, Word gets confused
and toggles these words forth and back. Sometimes they are
on the first page, where they should not be, but you
cannot even edit them there, as the cursor goes invisible,
since after all they are supposed to be on the other page.
Very aggravating, indeed!
This error has been a part of Word since Word for Windows
1.0, yes, since 1991!
There is no workaround - or is there?