Word 4.0 pagination problem

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1 total messages Started by Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato Uni... Fri, 25 May 1990 05:16

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Author: Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato Uni...
Date: Fri, 25 May 1990 05:16

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We had a student in here the other day who was a novice user of Word 4.0.
She didn't know about the "keep lines together" and "keep with next" options
in the paragraph formats, so she used hard page breaks throughout her document
to make sure things got divided up the way she wanted them. In fact, I don't
think there was a single soft page break anywhere in the document (and
it was over 30 pages long).

The funny thing was, when she came to print the document out, Word ignored
some of the hard breaks. Print Preview on the screen looked fine, but
actual printing on the LaserWriter came out differently.

Is this a known problem, fixed in 4.0a or 4.0b? We haven't received
word of these upgrades from the NZ agents for Microsoft, but I can
pester them about it if need be.

Or is it something to do with the fact that that document had
"fractional widths" turned off? In the end we fixed the problem by
inserting enough blank lines at the troublesome points to force the
page breaks to the right places.

Lawrence D'Oliveiro
Computer Services Dept                    fone: +64-71-562-889
University of Waikato                      fax: +64-71-384-066
Hamilton, New Zealand            electric mail: ldo@waikato.ac.nz
"OS/2? The last thing the world needs is another 16-bit operating system."

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