Disappearing page breaks

[Patrick Davis]

Hello,

I just started using Office 2004 for Mac. In normal view, page breaks
do not appear. I tested the file on a Windows machine and the page
breaks appear as normal.

Any ideas what I can do to fix this?

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Patrick:

No, I have no idea. They appear here, in both Normal and Page Layout view.

As you know, they can "hide". If they are part of a paragraph that ends
close to the right edge of the screen, they can be very difficult to see.
But they always appear.

Can you give me a bit more detail? Maybe: play with your font smoothing
setting in System Preferences?

Hope this helps

Hello,

I just started using Office 2004 for Mac. In normal view, page breaks
do not appear. I tested the file on a Windows machine and the page
breaks appear as normal.

Any ideas what I can do to fix this?

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[Patrick Davis]

Wow. How strange. The issue seems to be caused by Right-Justification.
I have manual page breaks before section headings that are
right-justified. When I change them to left-justification, the page
breaks appear again.

Natural page breaks appear as normal-- dotted lines across the screen.
Only manual page breaks seem to be affected.

Thanks a ton for responding! I never would have figured this out on my
own-- I had already tried a bunch of different things.

Cheers,

PD

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Patrick:

Yup! That will do it. The page break character is one of a few "control"
characters that are held to be non-printing and can therefore be
"sacrificed" if Word runs out of space on the screen to show you everything
at that point.

So they hide

Cheers

Wow. How strange. The issue seems to be caused by Right-Justification.
I have manual page breaks before section headings that are
right-justified. When I change them to left-justification, the page
breaks appear again.

Natural page breaks appear as normal-- dotted lines across the screen.
Only manual page breaks seem to be affected.

Thanks a ton for responding! I never would have figured this out on my
own-- I had already tried a bunch of different things.

Cheers,

PD

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[Patrick Davis]

Interesting...any idea why the page breaks appear in Word X with right
justification and not in Word 2004?

--P

 

[John McGhie]

Yep: Probably an artifact of ATSUI. Word X uses QuickDraw to render the
screen. It's non-Unicode-compliant but much faster. Word 2004 uses ATSUI
-- Unicode compliant but a bit slower and "different".

Interesting...any idea why the page breaks appear in Word X with right
justification and not in Word 2004?

--P

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