Style Headings causes Page Break

[Guest]

Hi,

I am using numbered lists with the standard heading styles down as far as Heading3. However, when i enter a large amount of heading3 numbers it causes the page to break at the section between heading 2 and heading 3.

This results in large spaces of blank document. It appears that Word doesn't like styles to cross a page break.

Is there a setting that I could modify to resolve this?

Cheers,
Martyn...

 

[Graham Mayor]

You probably have a 'keep with next' paragraph setting in one of the heading
styles that is keeping the text blocks together.

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[Stefan Blom]

This most likely happens because by default Word's built-in headings
have the "Keep with next" option set. The option is designed to keep a
heading on the same page as the following paragraph, which is usually
desired, because you don't want a heading to be the last item on a
page; it should always be followed by text. However, if you use the
heading styles for a numbered outline, you run into trouble, since
Word cannot keep every paragraph on a single page: eventually, a page
is "full", and Word will break the page, not necessarily where you
want it to.

What you need to do is to clear "Keep with next" for some or all of
the heading styles. Display the Modify style dialog box, click
"Heading 1", click Modify, and then click Paragraph. In the Paragraph
dialog box, click the Line and Page Breaks tab, and clear the "Keep
with next" option. Repeat this procedure for each of the heading
styles.

How to display the Modify style dialog box: In Word 2002/2003,
right-click the style name in the Styles and Formatting pane (if you
can't see it, click Styles and Formatting on the Format menu) and
choose Modify. In Word 97/2000, click Style on the Format menu, and
click Modify.

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Stefan Blom

Hi,

I am using numbered lists with the standard heading styles down as

far as Heading3. However, when i enter a large amount of heading3
numbers it causes the page to break at the section between heading 2
and heading 3.

This results in large spaces of blank document. It appears that Word

doesn't like styles to cross a page break.

 

[Shauna Kelly]

Hi Martyn


The likely culprit is that the built-in heading styles are set to "Keep
with Next". Generally, that's a good thing, because it keeps the heading on
the same page as the next paragraph (which would generally be ordinary body
text). So it prevents a heading appearing alone at the bottom of a page. But
if you have many headings following one another, with no intervening body
text, then Word will do its utmost to keep all these paragraphs on the same
page as the next paragraph. Eventually, either Word runs into a paragraph
that is *not* set to Keep with Next, and it breaks there, or if it can't
find any such paragraph, Word will cause a page break where it sees fit.

Depending on your needs, the solution is to modify (say) Heading 3 so it
does not Keep with Next, or insert some body text into the document.

Info on how to modify a style is at:
How to modify styles in Microsoft Word
http://www.ShaunaKelly.com/word/styles/ModifyAStyle.html

Hope this helps.

Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP.
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word

Hi,

I am using numbered lists with the standard heading styles down as far as

Heading3. However, when i enter a large amount of heading3 numbers it causes
the page to break at the section between heading 2 and heading 3.

This results in large spaces of blank document. It appears that Word

doesn't like styles to cross a page break.