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Jeff Heikkinen
I was having all sorts of fun (not!) last night with sections. I was
playing around with some sections in the middle of a document, having a
VERY frustrating time getting a table to go where I wanted it to, and
when I was done I looked at the beginnning of the document and found
that the first section break in it had somehow changed types on me, from
"continuous" to "next page". Since there is, stupidly, no way to simply
change a section break's type, I tried to create a new Continuous
section break, then delete the Next Page one I didn't want, but it kept
deleting the wrong one! For example, I would have
Continuous break (which I want to keep)
(on some attempts I put several blank lines here)
Next Page break (which I want to get rid of)
Cursor is here
Hit backspace and... the Continuous one is invariably the one that
disappears. AARGH!!!
Finally I deleted the break entirely, fixed up the formatting this
somehow messed up (the next line was in Header 2 style, somehow removing
the section break changed this to Normal and stuck it in with the last
paragraph of the previous section), and manually changed the column
formats (which differed - the whole reason the section break was there),
thinking all the while "there's got to be a better way to do this".
Was I correct? Is there a simpler procedure for this?
playing around with some sections in the middle of a document, having a
VERY frustrating time getting a table to go where I wanted it to, and
when I was done I looked at the beginnning of the document and found
that the first section break in it had somehow changed types on me, from
"continuous" to "next page". Since there is, stupidly, no way to simply
change a section break's type, I tried to create a new Continuous
section break, then delete the Next Page one I didn't want, but it kept
deleting the wrong one! For example, I would have
Continuous break (which I want to keep)
(on some attempts I put several blank lines here)
Next Page break (which I want to get rid of)
Cursor is here
Hit backspace and... the Continuous one is invariably the one that
disappears. AARGH!!!
Finally I deleted the break entirely, fixed up the formatting this
somehow messed up (the next line was in Header 2 style, somehow removing
the section break changed this to Normal and stuck it in with the last
paragraph of the previous section), and manually changed the column
formats (which differed - the whole reason the section break was there),
thinking all the while "there's got to be a better way to do this".
Was I correct? Is there a simpler procedure for this?