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to: LAWRENCE KELLIE
from: CHRISTOPHER GREAVES
date: 1997-02-01 00:29:00
subject: keep with PREVIOUS

LK>You appear to not understand the purpose of the Keep with Next.  It is 
hen
LK>you want to do that?  If your object is to keep those items together, the 
Ke
LK>with Next and/or the Keep Lines Together will adequately fill your needs.
Oh, but I *do* understand both "keep with next" and "keep 
together". In fact, my skills are sought after, both as an 
instructor and a document stylist.
I use both those formatting techniques in most of my paragraph 
styles, and they work very well. However .....
Consider a number-list style, where each paragraph is to have a 
number.
Such a number list may be preceded by a "Heading 1" style, or a 
"Bullet" style, or the "Normal" style or any one of Word's built 
in or user-defined styles. 
How are you going to keep the first numbered list paragraph with 
the preceding paragraph? 
Changing the STYLE of the preceding paragraph, whatever that 
style is, is not an acceptable solution, because that will 
adversely affect all other instances of that style throughout 
the document. 
Changing the paragraph FORMAT of the preceding paragraph is not 
acceptable, for that requires local formatting to be applied to 
every paragraph preceding the occurence of a numbered list, and 
we avoid local formatting as much as possible. 
Try my example at several places throughout a document. You'll 
soon see what I mean. We're meeting this situation daily, and 
again, we *are* familiar with all four text-flow options, both in 
local paragraph formatting and in global style definition.
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