The dotted line is a page break; note that you cannot type across a section
break. If the text in Section 1 exceeds a page, it's going to create a new
page, not flow to the existing page 2.
It's not clear from your post whether what you inserted was a section break
or a manual page break, but you can't type across a manual page break,
either.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
"Robert Macy" wrote in message
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While typing at the start of a document, suddenly everything after
where I was typing jumped to the next page!
Running Word 97 on Win98FE
SEQUENCE OF EVENTS:
I started with a 3 page document originally written in Teims Roman 10,
went to the top line and first character to make a page break section,
now there are 4 pages, with the first page blank. I separated headers
and footers. so far so good. I expect the final document to have 4
pages.
Ok, now working on the first page. I wanted Arial 11 [default was
Times Roman 10], so highlighted a single blank space character,
changed it to Arial 11 and inserted text from Notepad. [several
paragraphs]
All is fine. I then went up to the top of this first page and started
writing. Whoa! Times Roman 10 keeps coming up. Ok go to options and
change to Arial 11, check that every character and space on the first
page is proper and keep on typing, but suddenly! I now have a giant
blank space below where I'm typing and have 5 pages ?!!! What!?
Ok, go to normal view and there is a dotted line, with no label, and
impossible to get the cursor to sit on it, keeps jumping over it. Ok,
go to the end of my recent writing [at the top of that first page] and
hit delete until I 'pull' the second page back up, yes. that worked.
But when I started typing again the whole document jumped and again I
have 5 pages.
The dotted line has no label, so no idea what it is.
What feature could this irritation possibly be?
How to disable it?