Unwanted page break before a cross-reference

[Thomas Smith]

I have noticed several instances where I make a cross-
reference to another part of the document, say "See TITLE
on page XX for details." a page break appears before the
TITLE and just after the word "See". Has anyone else
experienced this? And do you have a solution?

Tom

 

[Margaret Aldis]

Hi Thomas

You will get this effect if you insert a page break before the cross
referenced heading.

The reason is that Word inserts a bookmark around the heading as the target
of the cross reference. The cursor position at the start of the line is
within the bookmark - so anything you add here will get 'swept in' to the
cross reference. (Conversely, the cursor position at the end of the
paragraph is outside the bookmark, and additions to the heading text will
*not* be picked up).

Depending on your natural editing technique this can have really disastrous
effects. The answer is:

1 Get into the habit of never inserting stuff immediately before a heading -
always put your cursor at the end of the previous section, press return, and
start from there (removing the extra paragraph mark if you end up with one
after your insertions/editing.

2 Never use hard page breaks. To force a heading to start on a new page, use
'Page break before', either in the heading style or as direct formatting for
a particular heading fix.

 

[Thomas Smith]

Thank you very much. That has helped me. I'll stop tearing
my hair out now
Tom