"Reluctantly", I tried it and it seems to work now. Even so, I used "undo"
to go back to the saved version that worked for sure. (I hate to mess things
up: this is a 500 page book manuscript and I am approaching my deadline)
:-)

What would make the SectionBreak/NextPage become corrupt and why would
switching to continuous fix things? Should I assume the normal.dot file is
suspect?

Thanks.

Jeff

Terry Farrell wrote:
Not true either. What you are seeing suggests that the SectionBreak
Next Page was corrupt and by changinging it to the continuous section
break, the bug was removed. Try changing it back to the Next Page
break again.

wrote in message
...
I discovered the problem. The Section Break has to be a continuous
one not a next page one. (Not exactly intuitive ........)

Jeff

wrote:
Using Word 2002 in Windows XP.

In a long manuscript, I separated 2 chapters by inserting a "Section
Break/Next Page". Even though the footer in the second chapter does
_not_ say "Same as Previous", when I change its footer, the change
is applied to both chapters. Works correctly elsewhere in the
manuscript but I cannot get it to do so in these chapters.

How do I resolve this dilemma?

Jeff