Headers doing my head in

[Jeremy Fieldsend]

Now this is driving me potty. The page numbering restarts at 2 (not 1)
following *some* section breaks. They are 'Continuous' breaks and the
page numbering is formatted to 'continue from previous section.'

Help please. Wit's end doesn't come close.

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word]]

Hi Jeremy:

The section break in control of the page number is the section break that
occurs AFTER the page the page number appears on. Remember: The Section
Break is both the terminator of, and the container for, the properties for
the section.

I would suspect that the following section break has been set to "Start at:
2", or that it is an Odd Page section break. Or an Even Page section break.

A section break programmed to have the document continue on a specific
"side" in double-page printing will cause Word to add a page throw at the
end of some sections to ensure that the next page occurs on the correct
side.

The Page Throw is completely invisible (because it does not exist in the
file, it is inserted into the stream on the way to the printer). However,
it will throw the page number.

Often, the easiest way to fix this is to remove all the section breaks, get
the document paginating correctly, and then re-insert the section breaks you
need. When you re-insert, each section break inherits its properties from
the one following it, so make sure you get the document working right first.
The "Default" section break is at the far end of the document: hidden after
the last paragraph mark. You can neither see it nor delete it.

If you think the default section break has been damaged, you can carefully
copy all of the text from the document EXCEPT the last paragraph mark into a
clean new document. That leaves the broken section break and its bad
properties behind.

Could I ask: why do you need all those section breaks? I normally have only
three in a whole book!

Hope this helps

Now this is driving me potty. The page numbering restarts at 2 (not 1)
following *some* section breaks. They are 'Continuous' breaks and the
page numbering is formatted to 'continue from previous section.'

Help please. Wit's end doesn't come close.

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[Jeremy Fieldsend]

[snipped jolly helpful stuff - thanks]

Could I ask: why do you need all those section breaks? I normally have only
three in a whole book!

This is a 30 page report. Certain parts of it I want in two columns and
I've been doing this by highlighting the relevant text and hitting the
columns button. Word then creates the section breaks itself, one where
it changes from one column to 2 and then another to change back.

I shall go away and try to get my around your very clear explanation -
thanks.

 

[John McGhie]

That's why I asked the question

You must have section breaks to change column formatting. I don't change
column formatting You will have to keep your section breaks

Pull them all out, get the headers and footers right in the document, then
put the column breaks back in

Cheers

[snipped jolly helpful stuff - thanks]

Could I ask: why do you need all those section breaks? I normally have only
three in a whole book!

This is a 30 page report. Certain parts of it I want in two columns and
I've been doing this by highlighting the relevant text and hitting the
columns button. Word then creates the section breaks itself, one where
it changes from one column to 2 and then another to change back.

I shall go away and try to get my around your very clear explanation -
thanks.

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Please reply to the newsgroup to maintain the thread. Please do not email
me unless I ask you to.

John McGhie <[email protected]>
Consultant Technical Writer
Sydney, Australia +61 4 1209 1410