Why does Insert Index, add a continuous section break?

[Gthomson]

I am using Word 2007 ( I think, as I can't even tell where the version # has
gone) and I have a multi chapter document with a TOC at beginning and Index
at end. My index should be in a seperate chapter but when I use the insert
index function, it adds a Continuous section break when i went a section
break on next page.

Am I doing something wrong?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You can change the section start to "New page" (Layout tab of Page Setup),
but what I generally find is that I want a heading of some sort ("Index") at
the beginning of the index, so I insert a Next Page section break, type the
heading, then insert the index. The reason for the Continuous break is that
the index is in multiple columns.

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

 

[Gthomson]

Ok, so I have gone to the last page of chapter 3 (which is the chapter prior
to the Index) and inserted section break, next page. I type the word Index
and make this an H1 because I want it to apper in my TOC. A section break
appears below the word Index and then the next page (everything makes sense
so far). I would like the index to appear on the same page as the title Index
but the continuous section break that automatically inserted above the
columns of the index, won't allow it.

It appears I have to have the title Index on one page and then the actual
Index on the following page. In Word 2003 I was able to have the title above
the 2 column Index all on the same page?

 

[Peter T. Daniels]

If you have a Ribbon rather than Toolbars, you're in 2007.

The "Continuous Section Break" isn't what's taking it to a new page.
Do you have a Next Page Section Break as well, or maybe a manual New
Page marker, or maybe the Index paragraph style is marked "Keep with
next"? Switch to Draft View (which before 2007 was called Normal
View), where the various breaks are easier to see.

Of course you do have Show Paragraph Marks turned on?