Text at top of new page

[Havelock12]

Hi, I'm trying to work out how to keep text at the top of new pages.
This doesn't always happen as I have spaces (that I have included) of
varying sizes (a couple of lines) between sections of text, and of course,
sometimes these spaces begin at the top of a new page if the previous text
section ended at the bottom of the last.
I know inserting a page break after sections that end at the bottom of a
page will fix this, but I'm continually adding text here and there and so
it's not always appropriate for page breaks. I can also manually delete these
gaps, but as I said, I'm adding and subtracting text so if I delete the gap,
one section might go right onto the next, which isn't what I want.

Sorry if this isn't clear, I'll attempt to draw an example - the dashes
represent a new page...

What I currently have:
Text text text
text text text
text end
--------------


Text text text
text text


What I want:
Text text text
text text text
text end
--------------
Text text text
text text text

I hope this is a bit clearer. I'm sure it's not that hard to solve, but I
can't figure it out. I just would have thought that Word would have an
intelligent feature where it can spot spaces at the tops of pages and get rid
of them automatically, since I doubt anyone really wants them (they're useful
as dividers when the sections are on the same page, but meaningless when it's
the start of a new page). I tried searching these forums for terms related to
'page breaks' and 'gaps', but couldn't find any help. Hope someone can help
me out.

Much appreciated,

 

[NatalieJubilee]

Hi Havelock12

You could create a style that has a Paragraph Format of Page Break Before
and apply that style to the text that you want to always be at the top of the
page.

Anybody else?

Judith

 

[Jay Freedman]

The Page Break Before setting is appropriate only for a style (Heading 1 or
equivalent) that should always start a new page.

You can define a style with a Space Before setting in the paragraph formatting
(but not page break before), and set the compatibility option to suppress Space
Before at the tops of pages.

I don't know why you want spaces of varying sizes, but you could either define
several styles with different Space Before settings or just manually override
the style with a direct paragraph format when necessary.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

To follow up on what Jay has said, you will not have space at the top of a
page if you have used Space Before. If you're seeing the space, I suspect
it's because you've used empty paragraphs to create the space. Although not
directly targeted at your question, the article at
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/BottomLine.htm may help you.