Section break insert changes sequential numbers

[RCCPIO]

To change a header in a 350-page sequentially numbered college catalog, I
inserted a section break at the bottom of 134. Page 135 became 128.

This protected document has been edited by five different reviewers numerous
times. Final version is MS Office XP Professional.

Taking the cue from the posting on corrupted files, I copied everything but
the last paragraph into a new document. All headers reverted to the previous
settings and I lost formatting on the last 50 pages.

I can change the page number to "start on page 136, but worry what's going
to happen when I send it to the printer.

Any ideas why inserting a section break caused the numbering to shift?

RCCPIO

 

[Stefan Blom]

For each section, verify that page numbering is correctly set to
"Continue from previous section" (in the Page Number Format dialog
box). If the document has continuous sections that occupy less than a
page, you can insert temporary page breaks to access the header/footer
area for those sections.

If the problem still remains, the document might be corrupt. Try
saving as HTML, which sometimes fixes corruption.

Or, as you've already tried, copy the contents minus the final
paragraph mark to a new document. Note that for a multi-section
document, you would have to either delete section breaks or copy on a
section-by-section basis (omitting each section break). In either
case, you'll have to recreate section formatting (headers, footers,
margins, etc) in the new document.

For more, see:

How can I recover a corrupt document or template – and why did it
become corrupt?
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/apperrors/CorruptDoc.htm

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


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