Microsoft KB Archive/119943

= WD: Actions That Invoke Repagination =

Article ID: 119943

Article Last Modified on 1/19/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Word 6.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Word 6.0a
 * Microsoft Word 6.0c
 * Microsoft Word 95 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Word 95a
 * Microsoft Word 6.0 for Macintosh
 * Microsoft Word 6.01 for Macintosh
 * Microsoft Word 6.01 for Macintosh
 * Microsoft Word 6.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Word 97 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Word 98 for Macintosh

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This article was previously published under Q119943



SUMMARY
By default, Microsoft Word updates page breaks whenever you pause while typing or editing. This is called background pagination. Background pagination is always turned on in print preview and page layout view, but you can turn it off for other views. Even when background pagination is off, however, certain actions cause Word to repaginate the document. Repagination happens whenever it is important for Word to show page breaks accurately.

The following is a list of actions that cause Word to repaginate the document, even when Background Pagination is disabled:


 * Switching from normal view to header/footer view
 * Switching from normal view to page layout view
 * Switching to print preview
 * Printing
 * In print preview, choosing Shrink To One Page (this is more noticeable if the document contains many pages)
 * Inserting page numbers
 * Inserting an index
 * Updating the index
 * Inserting a table of contents
 * Updating the table of contents
 * Exporting or saving to a foreign format
 * Using the Goto command to go to a particular section



MORE INFORMATION
For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

120106 Background Repagination Can't Be Turned Off in Word

Additional query words: 8.0 8.00

Keywords: kbinfo KB119943

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