Style Changes after Manual Page Break

[MimBracca]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel

I've searched the forums as best as I can for an answer to this but haven't found what I was looking for, and I'm hoping someone can help me.

I'm writing using a user-defined style, and everything seems dandy until I insert a manual page break. Whenever I do this, my style reverts to "Normal."

I have been through my prefs. My "following paragraph style" is set to "previous." I don't know where else to look, and the Help function is, uh...well, unhelpful.

Any advice?

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Well, in general manual page breaks are not a good idea and the need for
them suggests your Word doc is not set up properly, but this seems buggy.

Exactly *how* and when does it revert to Normal? Tell me specifically
what you type and what happens. (You aren't putting manual page breaks
in the middle of a paragraph, are you?)

Possible workaround--select the paragraph you want at the top of a page
and use Format | Paragraph "page break before" instead of a manual page
break.

 

[John McGhie]

Your Help will rapidly become "more helpful" if you allow it to go 'online'.
The Help for Office 2008 is a website, to which they are adding topics at a
furious rate. If you allow the help to go online, you will see the latest
ones.

Your "Style for following paragraph" should be set to the style that you
want to be in use after you create a new paragraph (hit "Enter").

Any manual page break you insert will actually be a "property" of the
paragraph following it, and hence it will have the style of the paragraph
after it.

As Daiya says, try to avoid manual page breaks: Word works better (and you
do less work...) if you don't have 'any'.

Instead of using page breaks to tell Word where you WANT a page break, try
using "Keep With Next" to tell it where you DON'T want a page break. Word
then works better and makes your life easier

However, Keep With Next doesn't work properly unless the paragraphs you
apply it to are also set to "Keep Lines Together" and "Widow/Orphan" is
turned OFF.

Hope this helps

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel

I've searched the forums as best as I can for an answer to this but haven't
found what I was looking for, and I'm hoping someone can help me.

I'm writing using a user-defined style, and everything seems dandy until I
insert a manual page break. Whenever I do this, my style reverts to "Normal."

I have been through my prefs. My "following paragraph style" is set to
"previous." I don't know where else to look, and the Help function is,
uh...well, unhelpful.

Any advice?

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