[nfbcs] a question about Word

[Steve Jacobson]

I hate it when others suggest things they have not tried, so take this  for what it is worth.  I would think that if you select the picture and the caption paragraph that 
the "Keep with next" or "Keep Lines Together" could be used to keep these items from being separated.  Inserting the page break before certainly works, but if one 
decided later to delete a paragraph you could end up with a shorter page than necessary.  These options are in Format paragraph on the Line and Page Breaks tab.  

Also, I would just explore the "Indents and Spacing" page of this same dialog.  There you have both hanging indent and indent options that should do what you 
want.  There is a "special" combo box that lets you select whether you want nothing special done or the first line indented or a Hanging indent.  If you specify 
"None" you should be able to indent everything, I would think.  

Another thing to be aware of is that if you insert a picture and you then select it, a new item appears on the format menu.  Object is replaced by Picture, and there 
are a lot of options that you can control by specifying parameters rather than using the mouse including the ability to resize a picture.  

The inches measurement of where you are in a document in terms of distance from the top is on the status line just befor LN which gives the line number.  Window-
Eyes replaces the cursor position with the distances from the left and top margins which is really nice, but I'm guessing JFW must have some way of doing this as 
well.

Best regards,

Steve Jacobson

On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:53:05 -0400 (EDT), Tracy Carcione wrote:

>You could insert a manual page break before the caption for pic 2.  That
>should put the caption and pic on the same page.
>A manual page break in Word is control-enter.
>The things I learn being a Bookshare volunteer.
>Tracy


>> Hi all --
>> I know this may be obvious to those familiar with the workings of MS Word
>> (I'm using 2003), but I have never done this without sighted assistance
>> and
>> am wondering if any of you have.
>>
>> I have a word doc that I want to insert 2 pictures into.
>> I know the pics are the ones I want and they should fit, as another pic I
>> took with this same camera fit. But it is giving me problems tonight.
>>
>> Here's the layout:
>>
>> Letter written that fits in 1 page, then a page break.
>> Text caption for picture then include pic1
>>
>> more text for the next pic, then insert picture 2.
>> Then followup text.
>>
>> Before when I inserted a pic in a document, the pic was short and wide and
>> fit neatly into half a standard page.  I was hoping the same thing would
>> happen with these. But pic 1 and pic 2 fall on different pages, and the
>> caption for pic2 is left on the page below pic 1.
>>
>> I also want to know any queries I can make of my position in inches on the
>> screen.
>> I have been using the jaws command insert+delete to get the location I am
>> on
>> when on the captions but the info it gives me is not usable. I need
>> inches.
>> This would then tell me about how much space the picture takes up.
>>
>> Any comments welcome. But I'm not done...
>>
>> I also am wondering how to interpret the indentation controls in the
>> paragraph settings. In my letter, I scarfed a paragraph of text from an
>> email and pasted it in the doc, and changed the font to turn it red.  Then
>> I
>> went to the paragraph settings and really don't understand how to
>> interpret
>> the controls. Of course I know what indentation and justification is and
>> such, but I need a way to specify how to indent that paragraph a half inch
>> and hopefully the line length would shorten automatically.  Also I need to
>> know if it is setting a temporary indent for the first line and not
>> indenting the rest, or if the indentation is for the whole block of text.
>>
>> TIA for any helpful info!!!
>> --le
>>
>>
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