PBB and Hard returns

Lynden O. Williams

When you use a hard return (hitting enter on the keyboard) you can format  the text after the hard return into a header in word. 

If you hold down shift and then press enter, word 2010 has trouble making the text into a header, and it does not show up as a part of the table of contents. (Picture 1)

In the first picture, notice that Discussion Questions shows up as a header (hard return) but not Summary or The Stranger. (soft return)

After deleting the "soft carrige return" and pressing enter, I selected the text, chose the appropriate headers and they are now a part of the table of contents. 

NetworkGeek

I am not a Word expert, but Shift-Enter does not put an end-of-paragraph symbol in the document, only a line-break; even though it looks like the end of the paragraph. This will do things like mess up word wrap above it, in your document - lines won't wrap pass a line-break for example.  There may be some other side effects of using Shift-Enter that makes one consider ending paragraphs with Enter, not Shift-Enter.