Uneven pages with widow/orphan control on

[Barry]

I'm fairly new to word. Trying to typeset a novel with Word XP (2002)
so that margins on page bottoms are even, not one or two lines off.

No graphics, nothing fancy. Using only 2 fonts and 2 styles to format
chapter titles and body text.

I want keep widows & orphans controlled. Is there a switch or setting
somewhere or points I can jigger subtly to even out the bottom
margins? Or am I asking too much of Word and need to go learn a
typography software program?

Can you help or point me to an answer somewhere?

Barry
Camroc Press, LLC
www.camrocpress.com

 

[Robert M. Franz (RMF)]

Hi Barry

I'm fairly new to word. Trying to typeset a novel with Word XP (2002)
so that margins on page bottoms are even, not one or two lines off.

No graphics, nothing fancy. Using only 2 fonts and 2 styles to format
chapter titles and body text.

I want keep widows & orphans controlled. Is there a switch or setting
somewhere or points I can jigger subtly to even out the bottom
margins? Or am I asking too much of Word and need to go learn a
typography software program?

That probably depends on what you expect in the end.

Word, in contrast to, say, LaTeX, will not change the distance between
two lines of text in the same paragraph (from the settings in the
underlying style or the paragraph itself). But it can assign the free
space at the bottom to the space *between* two paragraphs. That would be
a section property and found under File | Page Setup | Layout: Vertical
alignment: Justified.

Should work all right in a text-only work with lots of paragraphs (I
don't like it much with large paragraphs since the gaps can become quite
huge then).

The setting itself is also in contrast to another DTP "wish", that on
double-sided paper, the base lines should be at the same position front
and backside ... With only two styles, this would be possible with
carefully chosen line hight, leading and spaces before/after.

2cents
..bob
...Word-MVP

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See http://home.zebra.net/~sbarnhill/BottomLine.htm