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Old 05-12-2012, 02:39 AM   #12
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Not sure if you've used MS Word much, but here's an example... in MS Word you have two ways that you can use the program... you can either type, then to make a block of text look like a section title you can say that it's bold, 14 point, red, underlined (for example) and then remember to do that for every section title. Then whenever you add a paragraph you can go back through the entire document and ensure that the titles don't land on the last line of the page and add blank lines before them to make them show up on the first line of the page, constantly juggling the spacing to get it to all look good... then when you come to your senses and decide that 14pt bold red underlined is an ugly title style and want to change it to 16 point small caps black and not underlined you can go through and find each and every section title and change it... ugh... what a pain in the rear, and exactly how most people use MS Word.

Alternatively you can create a paragraph style and specify what that paragraph style should look like. You can also indicate that the following paragraph should always be on the same page as this one and be of the proper following paragraph style. Then whenever you add text and indicate that it is a paragraph of that section heading style, MS Word will automatically ensure that the section titles stay with their associated text, and when you change what the style looks like the entire document is automatically updated in one fell swoop... also, once you've typed your section title and press enter it'll automatically assign the proper paragraph style for your next paragraph!

This later way of working (the correct way) is what I'm recommending that you do with your ebook.

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