change continuous page break to normal page breaks

[Emory]

I have a document with continuous type break between pages.
How do I change it back to normal page breaks?

 

[Bear]

Emory:

The break you are describing is a section break, not a page break. You can
simply delete it if you don't like it. You can add a manual page break in its
place if you need to.

Note that deleting a section break will delete section information (columns,
margins, header and footer content) for the section it controls. The section
it controls is ABOVE the break. It may not matter. Delete the section break
on a test copy of the document and examine the results.

IF you'd rather change the type of section break from continuous to new
page, odd page, or even page, position your cursor in the section FOLLOWING
the section break, and then use File > Page Setup > Layout to change the
Section Start value.

This is one moderately confusing aspect of the GUI display: The Section
Start value for the section following the break is displayed in the body of
the break. It makes sense in one way, but makes maintenance a little more
thought intensive.

The simplest way to be sure is to ignore the information displayed in the
section break, and position the insertion point in the body of the section in
question and examine the properties on the Layout tab.

Bear

 

[Helmut Weber]

Hi Emory,

there is no continuous page break.
There is a continuous section break,
but that does not cause a page break.

If you are lucky, the following code might do what you want.
Try it on a copy of your doc.
Note, that the code does more
than you might be aware of at first.
It replaces all(!) breaks,
that is each character(12), by ordinary pagebreaks.


Sub Testx()
Dim rDcm As Range
Set rDcm = ActiveDocument.Range
With rDcm.Find
.Text = Chr(12)
While .Execute
rDcm.Delete
rDcm.InsertBreak Type:=wdPageBreak
Wend
End With
End Sub


For distinguishing between all kinds of breaks, see:
KindOfBreak12
http://tinyurl.com/ynwgnv

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