[Stefan Blom]

The issue you are describing is unrelated to the problem with page breaks
discussed earlier in this thread.

The reason why sections behave the way you have noticed is that a section
break stores the formatting of the *preceding* section. When the break is
deleted, the formatting of the next section break is being applied.

See http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting...thSections.htm.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"Brian" wrote in message
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This constantly drives me nuts. Why would I want to write a paragraph
using
styles after it? This is really a problem when i edit a big document and
delete a section. For some retarded reason, Word thinks I want to keep
the
format of the section I deleted, not the section above it that I want to
keep.
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~~ B.


"Charles Kenyon" wrote:

The thing you need to understand what is happening is that in Word
structure, the page break is not a type of paragraph mark but rather is
inside the following paragraph and a part of it. This isn't logical, but
it
is how Word is built.
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Charles Kenyon

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See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!
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"Robert M. Franz (RMF)" wrote in message
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Hi Charles

Charles Kenyon wrote:
No, but it is a very good reason for using the "page break before"
formatting in your Heading 1 style.

I agree with the "page break before", but still consider this behaviour
a
bug (or a least a bad design decision, if it was a concious decision at
all :-)).

Greetinx
Robert
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