Continuous Section Break Affects Pagination

[Don]

I'm at the "beats me" stage. In Word 2000, I'm working on
a multi-chapter book. Each chapter has subsections, for
which I use different headers, made possible by inserting
section breaks that are continuous. All of the chapters
save one are working just fine. In the maverick, when I
insert a continuous section break, it changes where the
page breaks, and I cannot figure out why.
Microsoft's "work-around" suggests converting all the
footnotes to end notes, but that is not the form that the
publisher uses or that's best for the readers. Moreover,
all the other chapters seem to have no problem.
I welcome any suggestions. My deadline is rising in
the east and soon will be here. Thanks in advance.
Don

 

[Robert M. Franz]

I'm at the "beats me" stage. In Word 2000, I'm working on
a multi-chapter book. Each chapter has subsections, for
which I use different headers, made possible by inserting
section breaks that are continuous. All of the chapters
save one are working just fine. In the maverick, when I
insert a continuous section break, it changes where the
page breaks, and I cannot figure out why.

In what way are your headers different for your subchapters? Are you
aware that you can transport content from, say, headers, into the header
by way of the STYLEREF field? This will allow you to have all your
chapter (and possibly even all of your chapters, depending on your
layout) in one single section.

Greetinx
..bob

 

[Stefan Blom]

Are you saying that a continuous section break acts like a next page
section break? The reason could be the footnotes, as Word seems to
prevent footnotes in different sections from ending up on the same
page (by making a continuous break act like a next page break).

This actually makes sense, since footnotes can be restarted on each
section, and if continuous section breaks were allowed, that could
result in the same footnote number appearing multiple times on the
same page.

Did you try changing all of your section breaks to "next page"? I
know, this isn't much of a work-around, but it does give each section
a uniform look.