Styleref field in footer showing next page data

[Guest]

I have a styleref field in my footer to show the content from a character
style of a paragraph. Each section that should have the footer is sometimes
more than one page long. This works fine, except for the last page of a
section before the next instance of that style. Then Word displays the
following page's data rather than the previous one.
For example, I want pages 1-5 to say "Section 1", and pages 6-10 to say
"Section 2". Instead, only pages 1-4 say "Section1", and pages 5-10 say
"Section 2".
Does anyone have any ideas why Word would behave this way?

 

[Charles Kenyon]

I suspect you have a manual page break rather than using paragraph
formatting of page break before. (A next page section break might also cause
this, not sure.) Page breaks are contained within the following paragraph,
they don't start a new paragraph.)
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Charles Kenyon

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[Guest]

That just might do it! I'll try that - thanks very much.

Brenda

I suspect you have a manual page break rather than using paragraph
formatting of page break before. (A next page section break might also cause
this, not sure.) Page breaks are contained within the following paragraph,
they don't start a new paragraph.)
--

Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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