Continuous break becomes page break

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David Palomo

I have an 80pp. doc. in 4 chapters. Each chapter was a
separate Word 2000 file. I put them together by copying
and pasting chapters in sequence. This copy/paste
procedure created the following result:
1.Continuous break on final quote of file was changed into
a page break with no other action by me than the
copy/paste.

2. Changed page break back continuuous break by selecting
the spontaneous page break in normal view, deleting it and
re-inserting continuous break.

3. Action #2 had the following result: When margins for
quotation contained in the continuous breaks were reset,
the continuous break immediately preceding the break
corrected in #2 sponateously changes to a page break. All
such attempts to correct continuous breaks that change
spontaneously to page breaks result in the continuous
break immediately preceding the corrected page break
spontaneously becoming a page break.

Is there some way to prevent this spontaneous change from
continuous break to page break?

thank you
David Palomo
 
E

Ed Jobe

Instead of delelting-inserting, put your cursor after the section break you
want to change, then File>Page Setup>Layout tab and select the break type
you want.
 
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Suzanne S. Barnhill

While this is the correct way to change the break type, note that you do
*not* need a break for this purpose. In Word (unlike WordPerfect) you don't
change the margins to change paragraph width; you change the paragraph
indents. Look at Word's built-in Block Text style for an example of a style
that can be used (with modification as needed) for block quotes. If you're
not using paragraph styles in an 80-page document, it's time you learned
how!
 
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