[James]

Ok i dont know what this all is for
SOmehow we went in another direction here.


"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

When you insert a page break, you are forcing the text following it to
appear on the next page. If that's your intent, there are often better (less
irrevocable) ways of doing it.

1. If you are positive you always want the text to start a new page
(beginning of a chapter or section, for example), you can insert a manual
page break, but often it is better to format the heading that begins the new
part as "Page break before" (Format | Paragraph | Line and Page Breaks). The
reason for this is that a manual page break takes on the formatting of the
following paragraph (the heading), which can cause problems if the heading
style includes shading.

2. If you're just trying to keep text together, and there's a possibility
that the text will need to reflow when upstream text is edited, it's better
to keep it together using the "Keep with next" and (if necessary) "Keep
lines together" check boxes in Format | Paragraph | Line and Page Breaks.
This will allow the text to flow as a block but will not prevent it from
flowing back onto a previous page if there's room for it.

Where you can really get into trouble with manual page breaks is when text
is reformatted for a different printer. If a page ending in a manual page
break is just one line too long to fit within the margins enforced by the
printer, then one or two lines may be forced to the next page; because of
the manual page break, there will be just the one line (or probably two,
thanks to widow/orphan control) on that page; the whole document will
alternate (almost) filled pages and two-line pages.

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