Invisible Page Breaks?

[Rudy Kohut]

Hi everyone.

I recently received a Word document over the internet from a friend. Upon
opening and viewing, I noticed a lot of empty space on pages at various
points in the text (i.e. Not consistent on each page) and thought I would
remove the page breaks. I clicked ON the "Show/Hide" button and to my
surprise could not see any page breaks. I looked at the pages in page layout
view and in normal view. When I added a page break myself it did show up on
screen.

I managed to remove the white spaces by putting my cursor after the last
paragraph mark on each page (no paragraph marks were showing from that point
to the end of the page) and hitting the "del" button on the keyboard.

Can anyone tell me what was going on here?

I use Word 2004 11.1.

Thanks

 

[matt neuburg]

Hi everyone.

I recently received a Word document over the internet from a friend. Upon
opening and viewing, I noticed a lot of empty space on pages at various
points in the text (i.e. Not consistent on each page) and thought I would
remove the page breaks. I clicked ON the "Show/Hide" button and to my
surprise could not see any page breaks. I looked at the pages in page layout
view and in normal view. When I added a page break myself it did show up on
screen.

I managed to remove the white spaces by putting my cursor after the last
paragraph mark on each page (no paragraph marks were showing from that point
to the end of the page) and hitting the "del" button on the keyboard.

Can anyone tell me what was going on here?

That "last paragraph mark on each page" was set to have a big
space-after. You could have seen this in the Format Paragraph dialog. m.

 

[CyberTaz]

Hello Rudy-

If you check the para formatting for any of those that precede or follow the
mysterious page breaks you may find that the Spacing Before or Spacing After
has been used, but most likely the Page Break Before (in the Line and Page
Break features) has been applied to the paras that begin a page.

HTH |:>)

Hi everyone.

I recently received a Word document over the internet from a friend. Upon
opening and viewing, I noticed a lot of empty space on pages at various
points in the text (i.e. Not consistent on each page) and thought I would
remove the page breaks. I clicked ON the "Show/Hide" button and to my
surprise could not see any page breaks. I looked at the pages in page layout
view and in normal view. When I added a page break myself it did show up on
screen.

I managed to remove the white spaces by putting my cursor after the last
paragraph mark on each page (no paragraph marks were showing from that point
to the end of the page) and hitting the "del" button on the keyboard.

Can anyone tell me what was going on here?

I use Word 2004 11.1.

Thanks

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[Rob Daly [MSFT]]

When you say the page breaks were invisible - what view were you in? It's
probably likely that some blank item (perhaps even a white picture) was in
the document. That would't show up in normal view, nor would the page breaks
(I think) because the paragraph mark for the item is on one page. That's
just my suspicion. If you could share the document before you fixed it, I'd
be able to say for sure.


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[Clive Huggan]

Rob,

I had the same problem yesterday, though only once. Word 2004, 11.1.1, OS
10.3.8.

*Definitely* no blank item or white picture. The page break was inserted on
page 3 of a (then) 3-page document, 2 paragraph marks before the final
paragraph mark, with no text in those 2 paragraphs (I needed a blank page
for double-sided printing of a series of mailmerge documents).

I was in Normal view when the phenomenon appeared. I changed to Page Layout
view, and found the page break was working, i.e. there was a new page.

I got past it by going back to Normal view and deleting where I knew the
page break was. Then went to Page Layout view, back to Normal, inserted page
break. Still invisible. Did this once more and it was visible.

Doc had been to Windows and back (but with no apparent problem).

I don't have a "before and after" -- only "after" (i.e., fixed). If it
happens again I'll send it (though I don't often use page breaks -- I have
them as part of a heading style).

Cheers,

Clive Huggan
Canberra, Australia
(My time zone is at least 7 hours different from the US and Europe, so my
follow-on responses to those regions can be delayed)
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[Rob Daly [MSFT]]

Yeah - that's pretty weird and I haven't seen anything like this myself. If
you or anybody else encounters it again, I'd love to get my hands on a doc
that does it or steps to get to. As always, thanks for you help,


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Macintosh Business Unit
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