Microsoft KB Archive/94130

= WD: Cannot Replace Section Break Followed by Table =

Article ID: 94130

Article Last Modified on 1/18/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Word 1.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Word 1.1 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Word 1.1 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Word 2.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Word 2.0a
 * Microsoft Office Word 2003
 * Microsoft Word 2.0c
 * Microsoft Word 6.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Word 6.0a
 * Microsoft Word 6.0c
 * Microsoft Word 95 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Word 95a
 * Microsoft Word 97 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Word 6.0 for Macintosh
 * Microsoft Word 6.01 for Macintosh
 * Microsoft Word 98 for Macintosh

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This article was previously published under Q94130



SYMPTOMS
If your Word contains a next-page or continuous section break followed by a table and there is no paragraph mark between the section break and the table, you cannot find or replace that section break using the Replace command.



WORKAROUND
To work around this problem, use one of the following methods to insert a paragraph mark between a table and a preceding section break.

Method 1

 * 1) Position the insertion point at the beginning of the first cell in the table.
 * 2) Press CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER (COMMAND+SHIFT+RETURN for Mac).

Method 2
On the Table menu, click Split Table.

Word inserts a page break and a paragraph mark between the section break and the table. Delete the page break.

NOTE: If you are removing the section breaks in order to create one large table, this procedure does not work. Each table will be separated by a paragraph mark that you cannot remove using the Replace command. You can manually delete these paragraph marks, or, if your table does not contain other paragraph marks, you can use the Replace command to search for the paragraph marks and replace them with paragraph marks formatted for Exactly 0.1-inch line spacing.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.



MORE INFORMATION
This problem frequently occurs when you create mailing labels for use in a print merge operation. After you create the mailing labels, you may not be able to remove the section breaks from your mailing labels main document using the Replace command (this is sometimes done to create a mailing list). To replace these section breaks, you must first position the insertion point at the top of the main document and insert a paragraph mark above the first label.

