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Can anybody (If you have the time!) explain what are
sections for in Word and how to use them? I know It is going to be a tough and long reply but pardon me! |
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While this may not be complete, I'll start the ball rolling.
Sections are used for dividing the document so that features that are related to the Section object can be applied to different parts of the document. Such features are primarily those associated with the Page Setup, such as - Page size e.g. A3, A4, Envelopes - Page Orientation - Portrait or Landscape - Margins - Vertical Alignment - Top, Centre, Bottom - Headers and Footers - Page Numbering - Restart or Continue from Previous Section; include Chapter/Section number with page number e.g. 1 -1, 1 -2 etc. All of the above can be setup on a Section by Section basis so that they differ from one Section to another. -- Please post any further questions or followup to the newsgroups for the benefit of others who may be interested. Unsolicited questions forwarded directly to me will only be answered on a paid consulting basis. Hope this helps Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Senthil Kumar" wrote in message ... Can anybody (If you have the time!) explain what are sections for in Word and how to use them? I know It is going to be a tough and long reply but pardon me! |
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Hi Senthil
Everything Doug said is true. So let me take a completely different point of view, and consider what sections are *not* used for. You can imagine a document that includes several major headings. So you may be writing about transport, and you could have major headings like Cars, Railways, Airlines. Your material is grouped in some meaningful way under these headings. We could imagine the heading Cars and the text under the Cars heading as being a unit. Word has no formal term for such a thing, but let's say that the content between the beginning of one heading and the beginning of the next heading is a "chapter". So a "chapter" is a semantic idea. It's about how the text is constructed and how we group text in a meaningful way. A section in Word terms has no semantic use. Sections are entirely about formatting, as Doug explained: margins, page orientation, headers and footers, columns, borders and so on. So one "chapter" might span several sections. And one section might span several "chapters". Sections and "chapters" are fundamentally unrelated to one another. I think this distinction matters because in ordinary language we might refer to the Cars section, and we would be referring to the Cars heading and the text under that heading. But a Word section is about formatting, not about meaning. You don't need a new Word section for every "chapter". Hope this helps. Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP. http://www.shaunakelly.com/word "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message ... While this may not be complete, I'll start the ball rolling. Sections are used for dividing the document so that features that are related to the Section object can be applied to different parts of the document. Such features are primarily those associated with the Page Setup, such as - Page size e.g. A3, A4, Envelopes - Page Orientation - Portrait or Landscape - Margins - Vertical Alignment - Top, Centre, Bottom - Headers and Footers - Page Numbering - Restart or Continue from Previous Section; include Chapter/Section number with page number e.g. 1 -1, 1 -2 etc. All of the above can be setup on a Section by Section basis so that they differ from one Section to another. -- Please post any further questions or followup to the newsgroups for the benefit of others who may be interested. Unsolicited questions forwarded directly to me will only be answered on a paid consulting basis. Hope this helps Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Senthil Kumar" wrote in message ... Can anybody (If you have the time!) explain what are sections for in Word and how to use them? I know It is going to be a tough and long reply but pardon me! |
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