If this is a pleading template provided by Microsoft it is likely to make
use of a text box (anchored to the header) for the line numbering. When you
add the continuous break it occupies some space, pushing the following text
down (but obviously the text box is unaffected by this). What you can try is
selecting the section break and formatting it as 1 pt font size, 1 pt line
spacing, and zero spacing before/after.
--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP
"Julia" wrote in message
...
OK- I actually fixed this by putting a continuous break at the start and
end
of the document (found this in the
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...thSections.htm posted by
Suzanne-
thanks Suzanne!).
HOWEVER- putting a section break continuous at the start of my document
causes the line numbering (which restarts each page) to start at line 2 on
the first page. HUH?
"Julia" wrote:
Hello all- sorry for the long-winded explanation!
I am formatting a document (a legal pleading) for a client that is
going
to be populated via mail merge from a third party program. The way the
program works is we use a Word macro to call a "standard" document which
only
contains an "INCLUDETEXT" statement. The "INCLUDETEXT" contains one
merge
code. The merge code contains a variable gets populated with the name of
a
specific document to be merged (passed to it from the 3rd party program).
The
"INCLUDETEXT" inserts the requested document into the standard doc and
the
macro merges that document with the data from a source document. Confused
yet? ;-) This approach allows us to use one macro to merge any number of
different documents.
The issue is this: the pleading I am working on is one column at the top,
then a section (created with a continuous break) containing two columns,
a
column break to force specific data to be at the top of the right-hand
column, then another continuous break that takes the document back to one
column.
It looks like this:
xxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxx
xxxx xxxx
xxxx xxxx
xxxx xxxx
xxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxx
My source document looks great. A manual merge from Word looks OK.
However,
when the merge is run via the macro the second continuous section break
is
mysteriously converted to a "section break (next page)". I have searched
this
site for the answer to this one with no luck. The doc does not contain
footnotes, so that doesn't appear to be the problem.
Any suggestions?
TIA-
Julia