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For future reference: I can see the future

March 31st, 2009 | Category: Uncategorized

I rarely have such proof that I can see the future (with thanks to twitter, now that I have no internal monologue). Encarta is over.

Yes, even an illiterate 5-year-old could have predicted the same. But I intend to reference this moment when my judgement is next questioned.

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Lazyweb: Simple word formatting help

March 31st, 2009 | Category: Shortcuts,Useful

Frustrated by my inability to get Microsoft Word to do some pretty simple formatting I wanted, I turned to the internet for help. Turns out what I wanted was pretty hard to devise a sensible search string for*, so I eventually worked it out on my own.

This is as much for my future reference as yours, but:

Stop a pagebreak occurring in a table row

Table > Select > Table

Table > Table Properties… [a table properties dialog is launched]

Select the tab called Row

Check the box next to Allow row to break across pages

Click OK

Stop a table running over a pagebreak

Table > Select > Table

Format > Paragraph… [a paragraph properties dialog is launched]

Select the tab called Line and Page Breaks

Check the box marked Keep with Next

Click OK

It’s worth also noting that this isn’t table specific, so you can avoid oddly placed pagebreaks by selecting any passage of text this way.

Create multiple references to a single footnote

Create a footnote as usual (Insert > Reference > Footnote…);

Then Insert > Reference > Cross-Reference;

From the dropdown called Reference Type, select Footnote;

From the dropdown called Insert Reference to, select Footnote Number;

From the textarea called For which footnote, select whichever note you’d like to reference;

Click Insert;

This was useful as I didn’t want the footer of every page to be flooded by repeating the same disclaimer. This way I can place the original footnote reference in one prominent location in the document and refer to it again throughout.