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January 16th, 2005, 08:27 AM
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borders and shading in columns
Hi! I am trying to put a border and shading to a column but the blank
paragraph above gets shaded too. How can I apply the shading after the column break and not including it? Thanks. 
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January 16th, 2005, 04:49 PM
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This can be a pain; page and column breaks always inherit the style of the
following paragraph, so if you apply shading, they will pick it up. In the case of page breaks, the solution is simple: if you use the "Page break before" property instead of a manual page break, you don't get this effect. Unfortunately, there is no "Column break before" property, so you'll have to be devious: apply the "Keep with next" property to enough paragraphs to get the column to break where you need it to. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Rachelle" wrote in message ... Hi! I am trying to put a border and shading to a column but the blank paragraph above gets shaded too. How can I apply the shading after the column break and not including it? Thanks.
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January 17th, 2005, 05:45 AM
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Thanks. I tried several techniques with my project and I was able to do it.
Thanks again. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: This can be a pain; page and column breaks always inherit the style of the following paragraph, so if you apply shading, they will pick it up. In the case of page breaks, the solution is simple: if you use the "Page break before" property instead of a manual page break, you don't get this effect. Unfortunately, there is no "Column break before" property, so you'll have to be devious: apply the "Keep with next" property to enough paragraphs to get the column to break where you need it to. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Rachelle" wrote in message ... Hi! I am trying to put a border and shading to a column but the blank paragraph above gets shaded too. How can I apply the shading after the column break and not including it? Thanks.
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