style for following paragraph

[charles thiesen]

Recently I noticed that Word no longer applies the style selected for the
following paragraph. That is, when I create a paragraph style and specify a
different style for the following paragraph, that style isn't generated by
a carriage return after the first style.

Is there a switch that affects this or something I may have done to turn
this off? It used to work.

I recently upgraded to Office 2003, but I don't know if this happened with
the upgrade or later.

thanks for any help with this,
- charles thiesen

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Are you sure you're pressing Enter at the end of the paragraph? The reason I
ask is that if you split a paragraph (pressing Enter in the middle), Word
makes both paragraphs the same style. And, while you may not think you are
splitting the paragraph, if you don't have nonprinting characters displayed,
you may not realize that you have a space (or often more than one space) at
the end of the paragraph. If you insert the cursor after the last visible
character in the paragraph (but before the space) and press Enter, you'll
get what appears to be a new paragraph in the same style (it actually
contains one or more spaces, but if you are typing in front of them, you
won't realize this).

This won't happen, of course, in continuous typing, but it often happens
that people type along, automatically pressing the spacebar after each
sentence, and then, at the end of a given sentence, decide it is time to
begin a new paragraph. Pressing Enter gives the new paragraph (in the
desired style), but there is still that space at the end of the previous
paragraph. If you then go back to add another paragraph between the first
two...you see how this can happen (and why it's always helpful to have
nonprinting characters displayed, especially when editing).

 

[charles]

Are you sure you're pressing Enter at the end of the paragraph?

Yes. I went back to check. No paragraph splitting. But in checking I also
acertained that it's not a consistent problem. In other words, some styles
generate the style to follow, others don't (and I haven't figured out what
if anything differentiates them.

Any ideas?

thanks,
- charles

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

As I mentioned, the "Style for following paragraph" is defined in every
style. For most it is the same style. For others it is a different style.
You can modify any given style to have a different following style.

 

[charles]

As I mentioned, the "Style for following paragraph" is defined in
every style. For most it is the same style. For others it is a
different style. You can modify any given style to have a different
following style.

Yes. I know. But these aren't working. You haven't heard of this problem,
eh? Just another Word glitch I suppose I'll have to live with.

Thanks, Suzanne. I can't expect you to get them all.

- charles

Hey, I solved a problem myself the other day that might interest you. I
produced a 5.5 x 8.5 booklet in Word and turned it into a pdf for printing.
The pdf showed a little drawing I'd done on a page it wasn't supposed to
appear on (opposite the page of an intentional similar drawing). I couldn't
find it to delete it in the Word document. Someone sent me a copy with
comments and there it was on the widened page over a comment and I could
delete it then. If I hadn't seen that comment, I would never have found it
lurking in cyber limbo. (If you have any questions about this, ask me.)

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Word in "Book fold" is known to put graphics on the wrong pages, so I'm not
too surprised to hear of this issue; the method of "solving" it is certainly
helpful, though!

If you'd like to send me a doc where the following style isn't working, I'll
take a look.

 

[charles]

Word in "Book fold" is known to put graphics on the wrong pages, so
I'm not too surprised to hear of this issue; the method of "solving"
it is certainly helpful, though!

If you'd like to send me a doc where the following style isn't
working, I'll take a look.

That's very generous, Suzanne. I'll do it. But there's no hurry replying.\

thanks,
- charles