Hard page break problem

[Phrank]

Hi,

I've got a document in Word 2003 that has a hard page break in that I
cannot remove. When I view the document in print mode, I can see the
line where the page break is located; however, it's located in the
middle of the page. The remaining text for that page should easily
fit on the page. I went below the remaining few lines of text that
should go on that page and inserted a page break, but that just left
me with two pages of partial text. What would cause this and how can
I get rid of it? Thanks.

Frank

 

[Carol]

Go to File | Page Set up | Layout Tab | and make sure that your
Vertical alignment is set to Top.

 

[Phrank]

Hi Carol,

Thanks very much for the response. I did what you said, and it is. I
also checked the margins and everything is set right. Any other
ideas?

 

[Carol]

Would it be possible for me to see the document? Have you turned on
Show/Hide so that you can see section breaks, etc.?

 

[Dan]

I've had documents that started doing screwy things with the breaks. I
tried everything until I finally had to cut the whole document, paste it to
a notepad text file, then recut and repaste the text format from notepad to
a new Word document and reformat the whole thing.

If you don't mind blank pages on a print out, then you might try inserting a
section break before and after the screwy page break.

Dan

 

[Phrank]

Thanks Dan and Carol,

The document is at work, and I can't bring it home, unfortunately. I
don't have show/hide turned on yet (I don't think anyway), so I will
check that out tomorrow. As for cutting and pasting into Notepad and
then returning to a new document, we have so much formatting in the
document, it would be too difficult to do that. I'll keep trying, and
if you think of anything else, please let me know. Thanks!

Frank