changing margins

[Guest]

When I highlight a paragraph in a document to change the margin I select Page
Setup and click on margins, I adjust the left margin. Then the entire
paragraph moves all the way down to the next page instead of staying under
the previous paragraph.

 

[Anne Troy]

That doesn't sound right, Lindy. Something fishy there. But, you can't
change a "paragraph" margin anyway. You can only change margins by the
"section". You can change paragraph "margins" by changing the indent under
Format-->Paragraph.
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~Anne Troy

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

When you change the "margins" for a paragraph in Page Setup, you are forcing
Word to insert section breaks because margins are a section property;
instead of using Continuous breaks, Word is evidently inserting a Next Page
break.

What you should be doing instead is changing the indents for the paragraph,
either by dragging the indent markers on the horizontal ruler (see
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting/UsingRulers.htm) or in the Format |
Paragraph dialog.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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