Word – Keep Text Together in One of Three Ways Date: March 31, 2011 Author: Diana Huggins By default, Word wraps text and breaks text across pages automatically. Jan 29, 2012 How do I keep words or dates together on one line when typing a date, ie, January 24, 2012, I want the date to display on one line, not separated. Uncheck update automatically unless you want the date to show the current date as of when opened. Choose date format you need. It will be inserted at whatever point the cursor is blinking.
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In Microsoft Word 2013, you can quickly insert the current date into the body of a document as well as into the header and footer. If you start preparing a letter today and finish it tomorrow, the current date will display. Automatic date updates help eliminate the tedious chore of manually deleting prior dates. Word provides a variety of styles, such as the month in an abbreviated three-letter form for tabular materials, to suit the format of your business communications.
Document
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Click in the document where you want to insert the date.
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Click the “Date & Time” button in the Text group to open the Date and Time dialog box with a list of formats.
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Click the desired format in the pane. Click the “Update Automatically” button to add a tick to the check box.
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Click the “OK” button to close the dialog box and insert the formatted date in your document. When you reopen this document on another day, the current date displays.
Headers and Footers
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Double-click the header or footer of your document to bring up the 'Header & Footer Tools' ribbon.
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Click the “Design” tab in the 'Header & Footer Tools' ribbon. This tab contains the Insert group and is not the same as the “Design” tab on the regular ribbon that contains a gallery of format thumbnails.
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Click the “Date & Time” button in the Insert group to open the Date and Time dialog box.
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Click your preferred format in the pane, and then click the “Update Automatically” button to add a tick to the check box.
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Click the “OK” button to close the dialog box. The formatted date displays in the header or footer.
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Double-click in the document body to close the header or footer.
Tip
- If the Word command ribbon is not visible, click the 'Print Layout' button on the status bar. This button is labeled with a square outline framing horizontal lines.
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Having a heck of a time with getting this formatting correct so any ideas would be appreciated. we have a bunch of information pertaining to foos that we want to keep grouped together. So if we had a bunch of foos listed next to each other, if that element causes the foos to wrap, the entire foo would stay together. Also the formatting should look like: So the text is to the left and the numbers are to the right.
So the main icon is leftmost then the name and model, and then right aligned is the siblings , and kids (with css embedded icons for each).
Each foo can have the following:
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The important part is I want to keep the entire foo together, in one big chunk since I use this structure all over the page. If needed the structure of the foo can change, I have complete control over it.
brad.vbrad.v
5 Answers
This is an example where tables are 'allowed' to be used. Because this is tabular data. Somewhat.
Doing everything in div is fine for layouts, but you're actually listing things with rows and columns. That's a table in my book.
Tor ValamoTor Valamo
The
white-space:nowrap
style does prevent the 'foo' divs from breaking, but I also found it caused them to blow out of the width defined in the 'content' div.I found the following worked in IE, Firefox, and Chrome (pc only, don't have access to a Mac just now)
Paul DegnanPaul Degnan
Derek IllchukDerek Illchuk
So you have a bunch of divs, each containing some content, and you want them displayed next to each other, in a row?
will make them float to the left and they will all appear next to each other; each box shrink-wrapped to the minimum width needed.
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
This thread is viciously old but for anyone who may happen upon it...
The modern solution is to use a flexbox. It can get heavy but diverting load from the server (HTML generation) to the client (calculating flexbox or even JS) seems to be de rigeur these days, especially in order to maintain semantic readability.
float
works but efforts to make clearfix
more than a persistent hack seem to have been deprecated in favor of CSS 3 solutions.Try something like this:
You'd need to copy your link through to wrap individual elements (once again, heavier but more semantically correct) and you'd likely want to give each a separate class so you could target it in your stylesheet for a specific width, alignment, etc.
NOTE: I got here myself looking for the
display: inline-block;
and white-space: nowrap;
answers because they suited my need more than the accepted answer.Whether the data are semantically a table is philosophical and pedantic. I defer to the discussion above and the, 'right,' answer is a very gray area. New CSS also offers a CSS-based table model and if your sensibility leads you to a table being semantically mostly-correct but you don't want to rewrite as
<table>
, <tbody>
, <tr>
, and <td>
, there's now a very good intermediate option. It would require shuffling your HTML but by the looks of the OP this is likely automatically generated so likely easy.Stephan SamuelStephan Samuel