Insert blank page following page-sized shape?

[adolpet]

I created a cover using a page-sized rectangular shape, so I could fill a
color. Now I can't figure out how to add any pages below the cover page. If I
insert a new page, it appears before my cover. I tried page breaks, section
breaks. Any suggestions?

 

[JoAnn Paules]

Did you try starting with two white pages, then add your rectangle to the
first?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Your rectangle is anchored to the existing paragraph. In order to insert a
page break after it, you need to insert another paragraph. But if the
existing paragraph is empty, you'll likely insert a paragraph BEFORE the
existing one, so then the page break moves the original paragraph (and its
anchored graphic) to the next page.

It will be easier to deal with this if you display nonprinting characters
(including object anchors) so you can see what's going on. There are two
approaches that may work.

1. Type a few spaces in the existing text paragraph and then press Enter,
and Ctrl+Enter.

2. Press Enter to insert a new paragraph and then drag the object anchor
from the second paragraph back to the first; then press Ctrl+Enter between
the paragraphs.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org