Why do you need the Section breaks in a "simple 6 page document"?

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"david_" wrote in message
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simple 6 page document composed in Word97
It came from an OCR so there may be some tiny frames lurking around
but otherwize a plain document
I've put secton breaks in as suggested by help but the "same as previous
icon" remains greyed out

cut and paste the lot into a new document - no change