preventing a style from starting on the previous page?

[Yves Konigshofer]

I am trying to insert a table of contents that is supposed to contain
entries (table titles) that appear in the text using a particular paragraph
style. Some of these table titles appear after page breaks. Unfortunately,
Word applies the style on the last line before the page break and then on
the page with the title. Thus, each table title that starts on a new page
appears twice in the table of contents; once for the previous page and once
for the page containing the table title. Is there any way to prevent Word
from applying a style before a page break? I can insert an empty line in a
different style at the top of each page, but there must be a better
solution.

Thanks for any help,

-Yves

 

[Jezebel]

Instead of inserting page breaks, change the paragraph style to include
'page break before'

 

[Yves Konigshofer]

Thanks. However, changing the style led to all tables being shifted around
the document (especially, when two tables were on the same page).

I've replaced all the page breaks in the document with section page breaks
and that seems to have solved things (although, now there are about 50
sections). It would be nice if there were a way to prevent styles at the
top of a page from applying to the last line of the previous page when using
page breaks.

-Yves

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Inserting section breaks is a recipe for disaster. Jezebel has given you the
correct approach. If you don't want *all* paragraphs of that style to start
on a new page, then don't apply the property to the style, just to the
paragraphs in question (and of course delete the manual page breaks).

 

[Yves Konigshofer]

Thanks.

-Yves

Inserting section breaks is a recipe for disaster. Jezebel has given you
the
correct approach. If you don't want *all* paragraphs of that style to
start
on a new page, then don't apply the property to the style, just to the
paragraphs in question (and of course delete the manual page breaks).

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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