Unwanted page breaks in cross-references

[dford]

I use cross-references heavily in some of the documents I
create. I find that sometimes, when I print, Word
inserts page breaks in the middle of my cross-reference.
I have to go in and manually remove them (or re-do the
cross-reference). Sometimes that works, sometimes it
doesn't. Frequently I have to remove the cross-reference
entirely in order to get the document to paginate
correctly.

Any suggestions

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

This is usually caused by the following scenario:

1. You insert a heading or caption.

2. You create a cross-reference to that heading or caption.

3. You want to insert something above the heading or caption, so you press
Enter at the beginning of the heading or caption. Or, in this case, you
insert a page break before the heading or caption.

In either case, the paragraph or page break gets inside the bookmark that
was inserted when you created the cross-reference and thus becomes part of
the cross-referenced text. The workarounds are as follows:

1. For paragraph breaks, press Enter at the end of the preceding paragraph
instead.

2. For page breaks, don't use Ctrl+Enter or Insert | Break; instead, format
the paragraph as "Page break before" (Line and Page Breaks tab of Format |
Paragraph).