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Subject:Keeping it together From:Sabra Aaron <saaron -at- JHUDIS -dot- DEV -dot- JHU -dot- EDU> Date:Fri, 16 Apr 1999 08:25:12 -0400
Hello, all. Checked the archives and must unlurk for a simple question:
any tips on keeping a word w/different formatting on different letters
together? Using RH7 and Word to build winhelp2K. I have labels that also
have hotkeys, so the hotkey letter is underlined: E_x_it (press ALT +
X). It all looks fine in Word, but when I look at compiled help, I end
up with E_x_
it broken up between two lines. Or "
Quoted" -- open quote left dangling.
As my project director would say, "That's really a quality issue. Fix
it." Bluesky's suggestion was to use paragraph formatting to keep lines
together, but I get a big long line, not just the word kept together.
Their alternate suggestion was to put all the text in a table.
Is that all I can do? Or is there some other secret?
TIA
S
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Sabra Aaron
Technical Training Specialist
Development Information Systems
The Johns Hopkins University
410-516-7694 vox / 410-516-3351 fax
