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Invisible Paragraph Returns
Hello,
I have a document with several sections. At the end of a section, there is a large white space. If I double click in the white space, several paragraph returns are revealed. Deleting them does not move up the text from the next page. The section break at the end of this section used to be a next page break that was changed to continuous. Any ideas on what these returns might be and how to get rid of them? Thanks! Melinda |
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Invisible Paragraph Returns
Could the paragraph returns be within a text box, or perhaps within the
footer of that section? How did you change the section break characteristics? Remember that the section break stores information for the section *preceding* the break, so to change a break so that it reads and behaves as continuous you have to change the characteristics of the section *after* the break. If you just double-click on the break you see, you'll be changing the start of the section above it, not the following section. See http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting...onscontent.htm -- Margaret Aldis - Microsoft Word MVP Syntagma partnership site: http://www.syntagma.co.uk Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org "Melinda" wrote in message ... Hello, I have a document with several sections. At the end of a section, there is a large white space. If I double click in the white space, several paragraph returns are revealed. Deleting them does not move up the text from the next page. The section break at the end of this section used to be a next page break that was changed to continuous. Any ideas on what these returns might be and how to get rid of them? Thanks! Melinda |
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Hi Melinda,
The large space is probably because the new section is set to start on a new page. Double clicking in empty space in a document will, with click and type enabled, generate lots of paragraph marks to position the insertion point where you double clicked. You are not revealing them, you are inserting them and you can, of course, delete them - neither action, as you have seen, will have any effect on a new section which doesn't start yet. -- Enjoy, Tony "Melinda" wrote in message ... Hello, I have a document with several sections. At the end of a section, there is a large white space. If I double click in the white space, several paragraph returns are revealed. Deleting them does not move up the text from the next page. The section break at the end of this section used to be a next page break that was changed to continuous. Any ideas on what these returns might be and how to get rid of them? Thanks! Melinda |
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Thanks for the replies. It seems that Tony has the correct response. The
section was set up to start on a new page. Thanks for the insight! Melinda "Tony Jollans" wrote: Hi Melinda, The large space is probably because the new section is set to start on a new page. Double clicking in empty space in a document will, with click and type enabled, generate lots of paragraph marks to position the insertion point where you double clicked. You are not revealing them, you are inserting them and you can, of course, delete them - neither action, as you have seen, will have any effect on a new section which doesn't start yet. -- Enjoy, Tony "Melinda" wrote in message ... Hello, I have a document with several sections. At the end of a section, there is a large white space. If I double click in the white space, several paragraph returns are revealed. Deleting them does not move up the text from the next page. The section break at the end of this section used to be a next page break that was changed to continuous. Any ideas on what these returns might be and how to get rid of them? Thanks! Melinda |
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