Headers and footers

[robert ginns]

Hi

Is there anyway I can change a page break into a
section break? Say that Word has automatically created a
page break because a table row has expanded onto the next
page, but I don't want a page break but a section break
so that I can individually set the headers and footers.
If I have inherited a document where there are no headers
or footers, but with multiple instances where tables have
expanded so part of the row is on one page, another part
of the row is on the next page- Word having automatically
generated the page break- how can I change all these page
breaks to section breaks?

Thanks.

 

[Cindy Meister -WordMVP-]

Hi Robert,

There's no way you can do this - at least not easily.
Unlike, say, WordPerfect, Word doesn't insert any kind of
character you can address when it generates an automatic
page break. Nor would that make much sense, given how
sensitive Word is to text-flow on-screen. Just using a
different printer-driver can give you different line and
page breaks with a Word document.

Theoretically, you could use VBA and the .GoTo command to go
from page to page, and insert breaks at the end of the page.
But whether this will be the end of a page when the next
person opens the document is not guaranteed.

Is there anyway I can change a page break into a
section break? Say that Word has automatically created a
page break because a table row has expanded onto the next
page, but I don't want a page break but a section break
so that I can individually set the headers and footers.
If I have inherited a document where there are no headers
or footers, but with multiple instances where tables have
expanded so part of the row is on one page, another part
of the row is on the next page- Word having automatically
generated the page break- how can I change all these page
breaks to section breaks?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jan
24 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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[robert ginns]

-----Original Message-----
Hi Robert,

There's no way you can do this - at least not easily.
Unlike, say, WordPerfect, Word doesn't insert any kind of
character you can address when it generates an automatic
page break. Nor would that make much sense, given how
sensitive Word is to text-flow on-screen. Just using a
different printer-driver can give you different line and
page breaks with a Word document.

Theoretically, you could use VBA and the .GoTo command to go
from page to page, and insert breaks at the end of the page.
But whether this will be the end of a page when the next
person opens the document is not guaranteed.


Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jan
24 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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.
Thanks for replying. Can I delete the page break and

then insert at the same place a section break for new
page? How would I do this?

 

[Cindy Meister -WordMVP-]

Hi Robert,

Thanks for replying. Can I delete the page break and
then insert at the same place a section break for new
page? How would I do this?

"Say that Word has automatically created a
page break because a table row has expanded onto the next
page"

If we're still discussing the kind of page break you
describe in your original message, re-read my first answer.
There IS NO page break you can find/replace, or delete.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update
Jan 24 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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