How can I make Word 2007 show page breaks in draft view?

[Sesquipedalian Sam]

I cannot get my copy of Word 2007 to show hard page breaks in draft
view. In Word 2000, hard page breaks were displayed in Normal View as
a dotted line with the words "Page Break" in the middle:

------------------------Page Break---------------------------

In Word 2007, column breaks are displayed that way:

-----------------------Column Break--------------------------

and section breaks are displayed with a row of double dots:

:::::::::::::::Section Break (Continuous)::::::::::::::::::::

but page breaks are not displayed at all.

If I set the Page Break Before option for a paragraph, then that page
break will be displayed as a dotted line, but without any words:

-------------------------------------------------------------

If I click on the Show/Hide Formatting Marks icon (Crtl+*), then the
hard page breaks will be displayed, but with a short dotted line
followed by a paragraph mark:

----------Page Break----------P

Is there any way to get Word 2007 to show page breaks like it does
other breaks and like Word 2000 did?

 

[Terry Farrell]

To see the Page Breaks in Draft View, you must toggle the ShowAll
(non-printing characters) command (Ctrl+Shift+8).

 

[Sesquipedalian Sam]

To see the Page Breaks in Draft View, you must toggle the ShowAll
(non-printing characters) command (Ctrl+Shift+8).

Do you know (a) Why page breaks are treated differently from all other
breaks? and (b) Why this was changed from the behavior in Word 2000?
(I don't know about XP.)

 

[Terry Farrell]

Nope. It was the same in W2003 and I have never been happy with the way
Section Break and Page Break displays are controlled in all Views.

Terry Farrell

 

[Ian]

Do a hard page break and then press the delete <- button. Peculiar, but works.

 

[Sesquipedalian Sam]

Do a hard page break and then press the delete <- button. Peculiar, but works.

On my system, this only works sometimes and only temporarily.

If I start with a new document, press Ctrl-Enter, then Backspace
(<--), the page break indicator appears, as you say. It's the full
width of the page, as in Word 2000:

------------------------Page Break---------------------------

If I then press Enter again (with the cursor immediately after the
page break, it disappears. I can bring it back using Ctrl+*, but then
is the short version

----------Page Break----------P

Looks like a bug.

 

[PamC via OfficeKB.com]

I believe this behavior is one of W2007's improvements.

Background: In W2003 & before, when you insert a manual page break before a
heading, the page break will be in the heading's style. This can sometimes
cause problems with the TOC, where a hyperlink from the TOC could take the
reader to the page before the heading. In the outline view there could be
blank lines at that heading level. The page break indicator looks something
like this:

----------------------------------------------Page Break----------------------
------------------------

Changing the page break style changes the heading style after it. The
simplest, though not my preferred, way of getting rid of the heading-styled
page break problem is to delete the page break and and set the heading
paragraph to page break before.

In W2007, when you insert a manual page break before a heading, the page
break will still be in the heading's style. But the page break indicator
looks like this:

---------------------Page Break---------------------¶

It's in its own paragraph, and its style can be changed without affecting the
style of the heading below. Hooray.

I do think it is a mistake that the "short' manual page break doesn't show
up in regular draft view like other page breaks do.

PamC