[trj27]

Thanks for your reply!

The fix re the footnote compatibility option was a suggestion I read on
another community page on this web site.

I'm running Word 2007 (12.0.6504.5000) SP2 MSO (12.0.6425.1000). I have XP
Professional 5.6.2600 SP3 Build 2600.

I'm trying to use continuous section breaks so that I can alter the header
information on various pages. For example, my chapter has three major
headings (hypothetically) A. Cats; B. Dogs; C. Birds. On every even page, I
want the header to Read: "Chapter 1." On every odd, page, I want the
appropriate subsection heading (either A, B, or C) to appear in the header. I
thoiught the way to do that was to do a section break, but I don't want the
text to start on a new page. When I insert the "Continuous Section Break,"
however, Word inserts a new page. I understood from another user's comment
that this has something to do with how Word deals with footnotes, i.e., it
doesn't like footnotes from a previous section to appear on the page with
another section, and this could be the cause of my problem.

Unfortunately, my "patch" fix is simply to insert the break (continuous) in
front of the first word that appears on the page. This is the only way I've
been able to avoid the problem. However, if I then insert a new paragraph at
the beginning of the doc, for example, it really screws up the formatting.

Any suggestions?

"Terry Farrell" wrote:

This sounds weird. Why do you need a section break before a sub-heading?
What has an obscure Footnote compatibility option got to do with the need
for the section breaks? Please explain what you are trying to achieve, Also
which version of Word and OS and are they fully patched up to date?

--
Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP

"trj27" wrote in message
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A chapter in the book I'm writing has subheadings which need to be
continuous
page breaks. When I insert a continuous page break, Word inserts a new
page.

I tried changing the settings in "Word Options" to "Lay out footnotes like
Word 6.x", but that only made the problem worse.

The only way I've managed to fix the problem is to insert the continuous
section break in front of the first word at the top of the page. The
problem
is that if I further edit the document and insert earlier material, it
moves
all of the information following the continuous section break to a new
page.
This creates split paragraphs.

Does anyone know a more reasonable solution to this problem?