(Okay, me being me, I try endlessly to tame the Lion. I try to make a nice
juicy steak. No luck.) But in actuality here's what I did next. I hit the
enter key again. And the cursor drops down one line, but it stays at the
same location. In other words, it's still at the end of the line just above.
(utt-o Did I do something wrong? I don't think so.) (So, I continue my
quest to tame this beast.)
I right click the line just above (that's my 6.3 line) and I click the
paragraph symbol to see the paragraph marks. I'm hoping to get some clues as
to what's going on in my document. (I wanna tame that beast!) And now I
encounter a symbol looking like an anchor. The anchor symbol hangs to the
right of the box surrounding the line 6.3, just off the paragraph symbol too.
(Why this is so, I don't know.)
So, I do some comparisons between my lines 6.2 and 6.3. And what do I
discover? The little anchor symbol is in different spots on both my lines.
(Ah Ha!)
On line 6.2, the anchor symbol is just left and below the line number 6.2
itself. It actually appears below the box surrounding line 6.2 and at the
same level as line 6.2.1. (That's not where the anchor is for my line 6.3)
So, this must be why I'm having this problem. I just don't know what to do
about it.
I've currently read some of Shauna Kelly's (MVP) pages for Word 2002 and
2003, but that's not up to date for 2007. However, her pages have most
definitely helped me understand and clarify some basic stuff about Word.
She's really terrific. Visit her site for some background on prior verisions
of Word.
Well, I know my problem has something to do with where this anchor symbol
appears on my line 6.3. It may have something to do with formating. I just
haven't learnt enough yet about how this all works yet. (So much to read.
My head hurts.)
So, if any of you people understand this and can help then I'd really
appreciate it. There's just got to be a way to control what's happening here
in my document. And I'd like to know how it got that way too. I just don't
understand it. I was doing the same thing I did in prior parts of my
document.
Have a nice day to all of you.
~~~
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP
"Liontamer" <Lion...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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To remove such formatting: In the Styles pane (Ctrl+Shift+Alt+S),
right-click the Heading 2 entry and choose Modify from the context menu. In
the Modify Style dialog box, click the Format button, and then click Frame.
Click Remove Frame, and then click OK to close the Modify Style dialog box
again.
~~~
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP
"Stefan Blom" <no....@please.xyz> wrote in message
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You know, I have done so much work trying to figure this out. Today alone,
I spent three hours scanning through large volumes on Word 2007. I just
can't believe it. I mean, I'm trying to find a picture of this anchor symbol
in an illustration within these volumes. I reviewed indexes looking up what
I felt may have been relevant key words. I reviewed tables of contents.
Books looked at: Microsoft Office Word 2007 Inside Out (I also ordered a copy
of it recently. And I expect delivery in about 7 - 14 days.) By the way, I
scanned every single page. But not one illustration showing this anchor
symbol. In addition, it seems impossible to hone in on this symbol using the
books index. Gee, this seems like such a great book too. But why didn't
they include a chapter of all kinds of paragraph symbols one might find while
using this program? I'm planning on writing either Kathy Murray or Mary
Milhollon about this situation.
If you knew my background and prior experience wtih computers then you'll
completely understand my disappointment at not being able to easily locate a
definition of this anchor symbol. Gosh, with a proper definition of this
symbol, I may have been able to connect the dots using my experience to debug
this problem.
Oh my, what a hassle this has been. I figured it must have had to do with
paragraph symbols, formatting symbols, bookmarks, etc. But go review, the
Inside Out book (or the next book, see below) and try to find a picture,
definition and explaination of this text box anchor symbol. You won't find
it.
Another book: Word 2007 Step By Step (I believe that was the name of it.)
I review the index and contents, went to various locations in this book too,
and I even flipped through every page looking for this anchor symbol. No
luck! Yuck!
Now, here's an interesting thing. I compared the format symbols of a prior
paragraph showing the anchor. And the anchor appears just left and below the
heading line number. This means it must be able to be controlled. It must
be able to be moved somehow. But how? And, because the anchor on the 6.3
line in my current document is to the right of the text box and raised in a
sort-of superscripted position, then the paragraph mark for the next line
appears just to the right of that anchor, even below it appears another
paragraph symbol on the next line. So, any text which I type will be out of
sink with prior text in my document. Gee Whiz. This is making me bannanas!
And I'm not a monkey. I like lions, and I enjoy taming them.
--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP
"Liontamer" <Lion...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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How did things get all messed up? The anchor symbol moved to the right of
the text box. Now, new paragraphs start to the right of the anchor symbol
just right of the text box. Because of this, I can't finish the rest of my
document. And I've got much more stuff to do. The books, I've described
aren't much help. Sadly, cause they look like such great books. Expecially
Inside Out.
I've got to figure out what caused this problem. I've got to understand how
to reverse the problem. I've got to figure out how to move around that dar
gone anchor symbol. This stuff has got to be more clear. You know, when you
manipulate a piece of art, you've got those handles, right. You even have a
rotate handle. But, at least, you can look in a book and learn about this
stuff clearly. It's pretty simple to learn that the handles resize the
graphic and the rotate handle actually rotates the graphic 360 degrees. Why
can't they explain this anchor symbol more clearly to us. (I'm disappointed
in them for not clearly explaining this in their almost one thousand page
reference book. However, I still luv's 'em, cause nobody's perfect. But
computers are bery bery exact, you know. So, ...)
Yesterday, I even looked at the Deluxe (OMG) MS Office Word 2007 book. No
luck here either. This book is about 1400 pages long. I've got a headache
from all this research.
Hopefully, I'll be able to email Kathy Murray or Mary Milhollon about this
situation. They really need to be aware of this issue. Because somebody out
there in Never Never Land is going to run into this problem too. And if
they're reading my comments and hopefully your answers to the situation then
perhaps they'll save themselves some serious time loss and aggravation. Oh,
the pain. But I'm gonna get to the bottom of this if it takes another week.
Remember, I tame lions.
Can't help it. I just love lions.
I found out about a really helpful person by the name of Shauna Kelly (MVP).
So, I started studying her web pages on prior verisions of Word 2002, etc.
And I got a better idea about how to use this Word program. You know, I love
those people at Microsoft. But sometimes, I wonder what they're eatting,
drinking and smoking over there.
Also, I did just make an attempt to Remove Frame as you stated in your post.
It seems to have worked. And I have typed out a couple of more paragraphs
in my document, just to test what happens. And it seems that the lion is
somewhat satiated for now. However, there's still a lack of an understanding
to how this situation came to be in the first place? I want to understand
more about this just in case it happens again. Cause if it does, then I'll
just have to make a steak medium rare for my lion. And you know how I love
lions. Gotta keep 'em happy.
So, I'll await further information regarding this situation.
Oh yes, I've got another issue: How come it's so hard to control where the
text starts on the line for Heading Style 1.1? I mean, the section number
appears like: 6.4 But the text starts about an inch or so
in from the section number.
Kind of like the line above this one.
So, what's causing this? How can I modify the text line to start closer to
the section number in the built in Heading Style 1.1? This is so confusing.
Believe me, I've tried stuff. But my lion won't listen. Doesn't jump
through the big hoop. What to do? I donno! I fed the lion a good dinner,
and he just looks at me with those big lion eyes and roars! Gosh, it's
scarey sometimes. I know my lion luvs me. He's just giving me a hard time.
It's been a long day for me. Be well everybody. I've got to rest now.
Well, it's difficult to tell how it happened. Some settings can be
automatically included with a style if you select the "Automatically update"
option in the Modify Style dialog box, but I doubt that frame formatting
belongs to that category. Updating a style to match the selection with the
insertion point inside a frame is a more likely cause.
> So, I'll await further information regarding this situation.
>
> Oh yes, I've got another issue: How come it's so hard to control where
> the
> text starts on the line for Heading Style 1.1? I mean, the section number
> appears like: 6.4 But the text starts about an inch or
> so
> in from the section number.
By default, Word inserts a tab character after the number and, depending on
the width of the number, this might push the text to the next default tab
stop, which might be less desirable.
To fix the problem, you will have to adjust the settings for indentation at
the affected numbering level: Place the insertion point in the first
top-level paragraph of the list (in a list of headings, this means in the
first Heading 1 paragraph of the document). Then click Home tab | Multilevel
List | Define New Multilevel List. In the dialog box, click "Level 2." Click
the More button to see all options. Change the "Position" settings as
appropriate. In particular, you may want to pay attention to the "Add tab
stop at" option. For more, see
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/numbering/OutlineNumbering.html.
--
"To fix the problem, you will have to adjust the settings for indentation at
the affected numbering level: Place the insertion point in the first
top-level paragraph of the list (in a list of headings, this means in the
first Heading 1 paragraph of the document). Then click Home tab | Multilevel
List | Define New Multilevel List. In the dialog box, click "Level 2." Click
the More button to see all options. Change the "Position" settings as
appropriate. In particular, you may want to pay attention to the "Add tab
stop at" option."
When I got to the More Options, I removed <Follow with Tab> and replaced it
with <Follow with Space>. And it worked !!! Yippie !!!
However, I kindof follow the logic behind returning to the first Heading 1
paragraph. But I'm not too sure "why?" I've got to return there to adjust
the level 2 parameters. I mean, it kind of makes sense, cause it's where the
multi-level list starts out. But will it be the same if I just returned to
the first instance of the Heading 1.1 paragraph? And just adjusted the
parameters from there? Which is the first instance at level two of the list
itselt. Humm. It seems, somewhat logical your way though. If no other
reason, because Heading 1 starts the whole list process. Just wondering how
you explain this need to return all the way back to the first instance of
Heading 1.
I'm gonna make time to follow the link you provided to Shauna's page. I'll
get back to you when I'm done. She's pretty cool, isn't she? Well, let's
see what she writes now.
The obvious follow-up question is, "Why does Word restart the lists?" And
the answer is that I don't know, but I suspect that it is some sort of
preparation for creating a new list.
Note that when numbering is associated with paragraph styles, you can easily
fix any unwanted restarts by using Ctrl+Q (which resets paragraph formatting
to that of the underlying style), but for lists that are not using styles
there is no easy way to fix the issue.
--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP
"Liontamer" <Lion...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Originally, I wanted to know why I saw the anchor. And you pretty much
explained the situation in a prior post. I must have done something
accidentally regarding frames. Or the program did it on it's own. Who knows.
I do recall trying to move the anchor by click and drag. And I do recall
that it didn't move with that technique. However, I am glad to see that with
your previous advice I was able to remove it and get back to my document
project.
I expect to receive a book on Word 2007 Inside Out soon via the mail. I
plan stepping through it and learning more about this program as time permits.
For now, I'm going to say thank you again. All I can say, is this is quite
a learning experience.
"Stefan Blom" wrote:
> For a description of object anchors, see
>
>
Now, I've noticed an option for doing this from the main Office Drop Down
Options List. I wonder, however, that if I select the option to Save As A
Template then will just the formatiing be saved of my list? Or am I saving
the whole document as a template text and all. My guess is it's the former.
But I'm not 100% sure here. Comment requested. : )
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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP
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