[Connie Martin]

Yes, I am just trying that now, but you know, Word 2003 is really not
user-friendly when it comes to some of these things. I am finding "page
break before" quite annoying in other ways. I think I am going to just
remove the shading. It's too bad because the document looks nice that way
but grrr-rrrr-rrr, what a pain! Your answer resolves the issue posted.
Thank you.

"Stefan Blom" wrote:

Instead of a manual page break, use "Page break before" formatting (Format |
Paragraph, Line and Page Breaks tab) for the relevant paragraph(s).

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP



"Connie Martin" wrote in message
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I can't find my question that I posted yesterday, even with searching my
name. Don't know what happened to it. Anyway, I'm using Word 2003 and I've
encountered this issue with previous versions, as well. My document is
several pages and sometimes has page breaks. I have a title at the top of
the page before every page break. I shaded the title black which extends
from margin to margin. That's fine. But the problem is that it also shades
the page break black! If I remove the black strip at the bottom of the page,
the black shading goes from the title at the top of the page. I would be
deeply greatful to have this resolved because it's been an annoying feature
for a few years! First time I'm posting a question on it! Thanks. Connie


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