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Old 02-27-2016, 10:14 AM
keepcalmandreadabook keepcalmandreadabook is offline How do I get the bottom of my text to line up? The odd-numbered pages are "higher up" than the even. Mac OS X How do I get the bottom of my text to line up? The odd-numbered pages are "higher up" than the even. Office 2016
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Default How do I get the bottom of my text to line up? The odd-numbered pages are "higher up" than the even.

Here is a picture of what I'm referring to.



As you can see, the bottom of my paragraphs are uneven. The odd-pages for the entirety of my novel are a bit higher up than the even-pages. And no, it's not a line space, as you can see in this other picture.

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Old 02-27-2016, 11:50 AM
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All I've seen is that the "Widow and Orphan" feature may be breaking your page.
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Could you send me about five pages from the middle or post it (as a Word document)? The only way someone is going to be able to say is to actually look at the document.

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Old 02-28-2016, 11:06 AM
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I can e-mail it to you if you'd like, although I'd prefer to solve it on my own so I figure this out for future documents.

Here are two pictures. The first is the cursor at the bottom of a page that is higher up that I right clicked on, and the second is the "Widow/Orphan" feature.
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Default The odd pages are "higher up" than the even. (Picture included.)

Here is a picture of what I'm referring to. The odd-numbered pages, as you can see, are "higher up" than the even numbered pages. This is like this for the entire novel. Also, the published copy that I sent myself (I get one free test copy before it's available for distribution... I'm self-publishing...) is like that as well.

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Could you send me about five pages from the middle or post it (as a Word document)? The only way someone is going to be able to say is to actually look at the document.

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I can e-mail it to you if you'd like, although I'd prefer to solve it on my own so I figure this out for future documents.

Here are two pictures. The first is the cursor at the bottom of a page that is higher up that I right clicked on, and the second is the "Widow/Orphan" feature.
I would like. I don't care to play "blind man's bluff;" that is what looking at pictures of documents is. I will tell you what I find so you can fix it.
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Old 03-03-2016, 11:35 AM
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I would like. I don't care to play "blind man's bluff;" that is what looking at pictures of documents is. I will tell you what I find so you can fix it.
Alright I will send a few samples to you, thanks!
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Old 03-05-2016, 09:11 AM
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I replied more fully in a separate email about the sample. In your document it was not a matter of even- or odd-numbered pages. Sometimes one dropped a little lower; sometimes the other.

It is the interplay between line spacing and paragraph spacing. The paragraph spacing is not (nor should it be) an integer multiple of the line spacing. This means that on some pages where you have more paragraph breaks than on others, the text goes a bit lower at the bottom of the page or the next line won't quite fit. In many instances, where there would be room for a full line under the text that is there but it still breaks, that is the "widow and orphan" formatting.

If you made your space between paragraphs an exact multiple of the space between lines chances are that you would not observe this, but your text would look choppy, like text generated on a typewriter.

You also could try vertical justification, but I wouldn't recommend that. Alignment / Justification of Text in Microsoft Word. If you do, remember that it is a section property and try it in a COPY of your document.

Attached are three screen shots from your document. The first and third show the odd-numbered page lower, the second shows the even-numbered page lower. The third one is definitely the result of widow and orphan setting.
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Old 03-05-2016, 09:41 AM
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Just a side-note, justified text produced by Word may look nice, but it is harder to read than is ragged-right.
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