I've turned on 'Show/Hide' (That's the pilcrow ¶ icon on MS Word's Home toolbar) so you can see where Return has been pressed to get a new line.Those of you with an eye for detail
might notice that these pages used have three different layouts.
The half title page on the left was vertically aligned at the top, the title page was
vertically aligned at the center and the copyright page was vertically aligned
at the bottom.
Many people achieve this by using the Return key to space the title page appropriately but this is a mistake, especially if the document will later be converted into an ebook. Consecutive returns will be interpreted as requests for a new page and that can make your book look very odd. There's a correct way to do this in MS Word without those extra carriage returns.
It’s not
immediately obvious how to do this in Word. To achieve it each page must end
with a section break.
First place your
cursor on the page you wish to change.
Next from the
layout tab (1) select the small icon (2) at the bottom right of the Page Setup
section of the ribbon.
Select the Layout
tab (3) in the window which opens.
In the Page
Vertical alignment section (4) select the alignment you want.
‘Justified’
incidentally will space out the paragraphs of a page to fill the entire page.
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