Microsoft KB Archive/26880

Word: Inserting Manual Page Break Causes Text Reformatting

PSS ID Number: Q26880 Article last modified on 03-07-1997

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In Microsoft Word for the Macintosh documents, each paragraph is formatted separately, and paragraph formatting is always contained in the paragraph mark directly following a paragraph. Thus, when you create a manual page break and insert text after that page break, the text above the page break will take on the formatting of the newly inserted text. This occurs because the text above the page break becomes part of the same paragraph as the text below the page break (unless you separate the paragraphs with a paragraph mark).

Similarly, when you insert a page break in the middle of a paragraph, both halves of the paragraph – the one above the page break and the one below the page break – are governed by the same paragraph mark.

If you do not want both halves of the paragraph to be formatted the same, insert the page break at the beginning of the line directly following the paragraph (rather than at the end of the paragraph). Use Show Paragraphs mode (choose Show Paragraphs from the Edit menu) to see if the page break is properly inserted after the paragraph mark.

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