RE: Tactics (was RE: (no subject)

["Lauren" <lt34 -at- csus -dot- edu>]

Hi Kevin,

Why won't "Keep with next" (in paragraph formatting) work for you?  I
consider both page breaks and "Keep with next" (especially for tables) when
the text does not break well in my documents, but I do not consider empty
paragraphs, unless absolutely nothing else will work.

Lauren 

> Ok, my dark secret is that I actually have used a sprinkling 
> of blank paragraphs to move an awkward bit to a new page.
> 
> Sometimes I'm in a hurry, and can't take the time to re-think 
> the entire document, just to get a table to start on the next 
> page, rather than split at the second of four rows (or whatever).
> 
> I know I can apply a page-break, and sometimes I do. But is 
> it more ugly, after a later edit that inserts some text 
> before the break, if six blank paragraph markers are pushed 
> to the top of the next page, or if an entire page is left 
> blank because a manual page-break got pushed?  In my 
> experience, it's often easier to notice the six blank lines 
> at the top of a page than to recognize that a blank page is 
> out of place when skimming rapidly through a 
> three-hundred-page document. (Either one is easy in a six-page doc)

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