How do you make a paragraph now show in the text but show in the document map?

[DJ Kim]

Sometimes you fall into a situation in which you need to insert a
marker that denotes the starting of a new chapter so that the marker
appears in the document map but do not appear in the main text.

For example, when the first line of a new chapter starts with pictures
instead of the chapter heading, you'd rather want a place marker right
before the pictures because that's actually where the new chapter
starts.
The problem is, you wouldn't want the place marker to appear in the
text.

To get around it, i insert a place marker and set the font white, so
that it does not appear in the main text but does appear in the
document map.

Would there be other get arounds to this situation?

 

[ebeck]

Hi,
I'm not sure if I fully get what it is you're trying to
do, so my apologies if this doesn't answer your question.

I think there are several options. One would be to use
section or page breaks (Insert-->Break...-->Choose
appropriate option to what you want). This will put a
dotted line on the page when you view it on the screen,
but won't be present in the printed version.

As another option you could write a line that says
something like 'This is the beginning of the next
chapter' and then format it to be hidden text. (Highlight
the text, right click, choose 'font', check the box next
to 'Hidden'.)

Hope one of these meets your needs!

Cheers.

 

[DJ Kim]

I'm sorry i wasn't more clear with my question.

What I wanted to pull off is to have something that shows up only in
the document map and not in the body text.
The only solution I found is to set the font color "white" in the body
text, which would make the text transparent in the body text but show
up in the document map, because document map has its own font color
format.
I also tried "hidden" character format, but that seems to make the
text hidden in the document map as well.

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi DJ,

The document map reacts to Outline Levels. I'd set up a style that has
an outline level (Level 1, probably) to apply to the paragraph at the
point in question. You say pictures are involved - I'd hope these are
placed in-line with the text? So it would be the style for that
paragraph mark.

Otherwise, put them in a FRAME and frame would be part of the style
definition.

Sometimes you fall into a situation in which you need to insert a
marker that denotes the starting of a new chapter so that the marker
appears in the document map but do not appear in the main text.

For example, when the first line of a new chapter starts with pictures
instead of the chapter heading, you'd rather want a place marker right
before the pictures because that's actually where the new chapter
starts.
The problem is, you wouldn't want the place marker to appear in the
text.

To get around it, i insert a place marker and set the font white, so
that it does not appear in the main text but does appear in the
document map.

Would there be other get arounds to this situation?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep 30 2003)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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