[Bob S[_2_]]

Thank you Terry. I did this and it replaced 42 section breaks with nothing.
But when I looked at the footers they still said that there were 57 section
breaks. What can I do now?

"Terry Farrell" wrote in message
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You can use the Search and Replace dialog to find section breaks and
replace them with either a paragraph break (probably the sensible choice)
or nothing.

Select Replace and in the dialog, press the MORE button. At the bottom you
will see a SPECIAL button which is a drop down list of special characters
including Section Breaks (which is ^b).

--
Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP

"Bob S" wrote in message
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Thanks Suzanne. Yes, the document was converted from WordPerfect, and I
do have a whole slew of unnecessary section breaks. Since I do not need
them, is there a simple way to get rid of all of the section breaks and
put in simple footers?

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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Do you have a whole bunch of section breaks? Sounds like it. Only you
can decide whether you really need them (if they document was converted
from WordPerfect, you'll have a slew of unnecessary ones). If you really
do, then you will have to use the Show Next button on the Header and
Footer toolbar to skip to the next section, click on the Same as
Previous (or Link to Previous) button to link that footer to the
previous one, which should give you the page number. Repeat as needed
for the remaining sections.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"Bob S" wrote in message
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Thank you Suzanne,
I have gone through and deleted all 132 page number frames. And I have
the Header and Footer toolbar onscreen. When I click Insert Page
Number, I see a page number inserted into the footer, left justified.
If I want it to be centered I can press ^E and it will move over.
However, I do not see any page numbers in any of the other footers in
the document. How can I get page numbers throughout the document (and
preferably have them centered)? Thank you again in advance.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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When you use the Insert | Page Numbers command, the page number is
inserted in a frame. Every time you use this command, another frame is
inserted. Which is why using the Insert Page Number command on the
Header and Footer toolbar is recommended. I'm afraid you'll have to go
through the footers one by one and delete the frames one by one. For
more on this, see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...lyIndented.htm

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"Bob S" wrote in message
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Thank you Suzanne. That helped a lot. With that instruction I was
able to add a page number to the footer and to put it nice an low on
the page. However, there still exists another page number about an
inch higher. If I double click this other page number and then click
it once more, it appears to be in a text box (about 6 inches across)
in the lower part of each page. If I click the gray box around the
page number the black boxes used to size it appear. If I then press
delete, the box and the number disappear. Is there a way to get all
of these boxes to disappear at once, so that only the page numbers
that I put low in the footer (like you instructed me) remain?
Thanks again.
Bob


"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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Reduce the footer margin to something less than the bottom margin.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"Bob S" wrote in message
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I am sorry. I gave the wrong impression. I meant that on a number
of pages, there area several sentances which I need to keep found
below the page numbers.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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Delete the empty paragraphs below the page numbers.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"Bob S" wrote in message
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I have a Word document given to me which has the page numbers too
high on the page. In fact in some cases there are actually some
lines below the page numbers. The page numbers are in the middle
at the bottom of the page. Can someone tell me how to move the
page numbers down as low as possible on the page? Thank you in
advance.
Bob