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fighting with footers and section breaks
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 |
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fighting with footers and section breaks SOLVED
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 |
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fighting with footers and section breaks SOLVED
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. -- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP 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 |
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fighting with footers and section breaks SOLVED
"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 |
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fighting with footers and section breaks SOLVED
I guess that the corrupt footer was resolved by changing the section break:
but the real reason will never be known. One trick that usually removes partial corruptions is to SaveAs in HTML or RTF, close it, open it and SaveAs back to .doc format. Terry wrote in message ... "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 |
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fighting with footers and section breaks SOLVED
Thank you.
Jeff Terry Farrell wrote: I guess that the corrupt footer was resolved by changing the section break: but the real reason will never be known. One trick that usually removes partial corruptions is to SaveAs in HTML or RTF, close it, open it and SaveAs back to .doc format. Terry wrote in message ... "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 |
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