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Deleting Section Breaks and loosing headers!
If I'm in Section 2 of my doc, and I delete "Section Break (New page)", then
if I'm not mistaken the headers that remain in Section 2 become those that were in Section 3! I want to keep the headers/footers in section 2....any ideas please? Allan |
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Deleting Section Breaks and loosing headers!
A section break stores the formatting of the *previous* section (and the
final paragraph mark of each document contains an invisible section break), which explains what you are seeing. For instructions on preserving section formatting when deleting section breaks, including headers and footers, see http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting...thSections.htm. Note that if headers and footers are the only items that you want to preserve when deleting the section break, you can, of course, temporarily copy them into the document body, and then copy them back into their appropriate locations after you have deleted the break. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Al" wrote in message news  If I'm in Section 2 of my doc, and I delete "Section Break (New page)", then if I'm not mistaken the headers that remain in Section 2 become those that were in Section 3! I want to keep the headers/footers in section 2....any ideas please? Allan |
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Deleting Section Breaks and loosing headers!
On Fri, 2 May 2008 03:16:00 -0700, Al wrote:
If I'm in Section 2 of my doc, and I delete "Section Break (New page)", then if I'm not mistaken the headers that remain in Section 2 become those that were in Section 3! I want to keep the headers/footers in section 2....any ideas please? Allan Unintuitively, the headers and other section-level formatting are stored in the section break at the end of the section, not at the beginning. The final paragraph mark of the document serves as the "section break" for the last section. Since you can't delete the final paragraph mark, you have to give it the same headers as the preceding section _before_ you delete the section break that separates the last two sections. To do that, open the header pane for the last section and click the Same As Previous button. Now both sections have the same header, so deleting the section break won't change the visible header. Repeat this for the footers if they're different. Also make sure both sections have the same margins, orientation, etc. See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Format...thSections.htm for more details. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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Deleting Section Breaks and loosing headers!
Stefan, Jay, thank you both...I'll give it a try!
Al "Stefan Blom" wrote: A section break stores the formatting of the *previous* section (and the final paragraph mark of each document contains an invisible section break), which explains what you are seeing. For instructions on preserving section formatting when deleting section breaks, including headers and footers, see http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting...thSections.htm. Note that if headers and footers are the only items that you want to preserve when deleting the section break, you can, of course, temporarily copy them into the document body, and then copy them back into their appropriate locations after you have deleted the break. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Al" wrote in message news If I'm in Section 2 of my doc, and I delete "Section Break (New page)", then if I'm not mistaken the headers that remain in Section 2 become those that were in Section 3! I want to keep the headers/footers in section 2....any ideas please? Allan |
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Deleting Section Breaks and loosing headers!
I've found that when I have a 'blank' last page because of a misplaced
Section Break - Next Page at the end, I can click on the very last paragraph mark of the document and go into Page Setup - Layout and change the Section Start from New Page to Continuous. This will at least get rid of the 'blank' page without losing my headers and footers. -- Thanks! Barb "Al" wrote: If I'm in Section 2 of my doc, and I delete "Section Break (New page)", then if I'm not mistaken the headers that remain in Section 2 become those that were in Section 3! I want to keep the headers/footers in section 2....any ideas please? Allan |
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Deleting Section Breaks and loosing headers!
For the "complete" explanation of how section breaks behave, see
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting...thSections.htm. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Barb" wrote in message ... I've found that when I have a 'blank' last page because of a misplaced Section Break - Next Page at the end, I can click on the very last paragraph mark of the document and go into Page Setup - Layout and change the Section Start from New Page to Continuous. This will at least get rid of the 'blank' page without losing my headers and footers. -- Thanks! Barb "Al" wrote: If I'm in Section 2 of my doc, and I delete "Section Break (New page)", then if I'm not mistaken the headers that remain in Section 2 become those that were in Section 3! I want to keep the headers/footers in section 2....any ideas please? Allan |
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