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Originally Posted by styler001
Thanks for the quick replies and tips.
One question, now that you mention avoiding ^p^p. I've got text such as the following, using the dots as a break:
What would be the "proper" or "accepted" way to handle that?
Or this, because this is how I like me chapters starting off...
Thanks again. You guys are great!
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This is how I would do what you want to do
I would use Heading 1 Style for Chapter headings - assuming each line is 6 points, 4x6=24 so I would adjust the Paragraph section of Heading 1 Style to put 24pt gap
after the Text
BTW Ctl/Alt/1 will style the current paragraph as Heading 1.
I don't use softbreaks much, when I do I just type '* * * * * *' followed by ctrl/e to centre.
But if I wanted to do something as you want to do I would probably create a macro. First you need to
Show the Developer tab. Then you need to
Record the Macro. If were me I'd assign it to a shortcut eg Alt/Shift/S.
The macro would 'type your six dots', and then edit the paragraph to centre the text and put 12 points before and after the paragraph.
It might take you a little bit of time to create the macro, if you haven't used them previously - but once you 'get the hang of it' you'll curse yourself for not taking the time earlier.
Here's a list of keyboard shortcuts for Word 2010 -
http://www.shortcutworld.com/en/win/Word_2010.html
Addenda
An easier way for your softbreak is to create a
Word Quick Part - you create a softbreak as you want to have it (the six dots, centred with 12 points before and after) - select it and put it in Words Quick Part (Auto Text) gallery
And here's how to give a
Quick Part a Keyboard shortcut
Much easier than using macros
Calibre and Word have one thing in common - there's usually more than one way to achieve the same result
BR