Hi Fred,

Section-related formatting (such as page orientation, headers/footers) is stored
"in" section breaks (including the last paragraph mark of a document). This is a
long-standing source of instability in Word documents. The more section breaks
you have, and the more they're "fiddled", the greater the chances something in
the document will break. Infinite repagination, crashes, inability to scroll
into some text... all these are indications that something has "gone bad"
internally.

If you can still open and save the document, then the chance of saving without
data loss is good. Try opening such a document in Word 2003. File/Save as to XML
file format. Close. Open it again and save back to *.doc format. If you're
lucky, this round-tripping through a converter will straighten out whatever has
gotten mixed up and the document will perform normally.

If you're seeing this problem consistently, and you can determine a pattern (it
always happens to the section type X), you may need to check the macro code
generating the sections. It's possible a problem has been programmed into
them...

It happens on Word2000 Sp3 and Word2003 Sp1/2 under Windows XP.

The base template contains approx 8 section breaks, and each new
Chapter/Appendix generates 2/3 additional section breaks. Additionally, each
page layout change Landscape/portrait will generate 2 more.

Macros/VB is used to insert new chapters/appendices/landscape and other
special page inserts.

All sections are intact with their Header/Footers unlinked from previous.

The pheonmenon occurs on old and new documents.

The scroll up has no definite number of pages/sections that it will allow
you to go from your start point. The only way to go past the "point" is to
move the Scroll Bar a long way or Cntrl+Home" and go forwrd to the place you
wanted to get to.


Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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