For page breaks, as opposed to column breaks, using "Page break before"
formatting is the easiest approach. You can add the command to a toolbar
(Word 97-2003) or to the QAT (Word 2007).
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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP
"MattWood" wrote in message
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Our style uses a numbered, shaded Heading 1 and, as noted in this thread,
placing the cursor to the left of the heading text and inserting a manual
page break causes the "---------Page Break---------" line before the
heading
to also be shaded.
One solution is to use a Next Page section break instead of a page break.
This breaks cleanly without shading the preceeding line, but of course,
you
have to be mindful that you just started a new section.
I also came to the solution that Stephan mentioned. If you insert a
paragraph before the heading and then insert the page break the preceeding
line will not be shaded, but it inserts a full line of space between the
header and the heading, and this is particularly visible given a shaded
heading. Defining and applying a 1-point paragraph style with 0 space
before
and after does make this look OK.
Either of these solutions works for me, but unfortunately I am defining
templates for use by many field people with widely varying MS Word skill
levels. I cannot count on them to insert the 1-point paragraph spacer or
properly keep track of section breaks--evenwith commented instructins in
the
template, most won't get it right. The best solution would be for
Microsoft
to "fix" this problem so that the page break works like a section break as
regards shading the line before the header.
Any other suggestions would be most welcome.
"Stefan Blom" wrote:
To prevent a paragraph border from being applied to a column break, do
the
following: Before the heading (that does have a border) in the column
following the break, press Enter to insert a blank paragraph. Then format
a
paragraph style as font size 1 pt, spacing before/after zero, line
spacing
exactly 1 pt, and apply it to the blank paragraph.
For what it's worth, such paragraph styles can also be useful when the
paragraph mark following a table ends up on the page after the table,
thus
forcing a blank page (for more on blank pages in Word, see
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/BlankPage.htm).
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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP
"Writer@Large" wrote in message
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That's certainly functional ... IF you only intend to use the style on
the
top of a new page. Otherwise, it neccessitates the creaton of a
seperate
Heading Style *just* for page breaks.
What an annoying bug in the program! The shading issue, BTW, also
affects
all other kinds of breaks (columns, etc.), and this fix does not work
for
those situations.