Flaky page break in Word 2000

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Chuck

I have a flaky page break in one document. I would
appreciate any advice on how to fix it. Symptoms:

* Text sometimes is repeated at the bottom of one page and
the top of the following page in layout view, but it
appears as it should in normal view. Sometimes in layout
view the heading at the top of the second page partly
overlaps the following paragraph, especially when I let
them flow onto the previous page.

* When I apply "Page break before" to the heading, the
page appears to break correctly in layout view, but no
dotted line appears before the heading in normal view.

* In the "Insert Cross-reference" dialog box, there are
three blank lines in the heading list before the heading
that is at the top of the second page. This is the only
place in the heading list that there are blank lines.

* When I cross-reference that heading, clicking the cross-
reference text takes me to the top of the preceding page.

* When I recreate the heading and following paragraph from
scratch, and then delete the problem one, the problem
persists.
 
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Suzanne S. Barnhill

The symptoms you mention could be signs of incipient document corruption.
See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm. But it could also
very well be that you've managed to get manual page breaks inside the
bookmarks inserted for the TOC, cross-references, etc. For the text
shifting, see "WD2002: Text May Be Missing When You View a Word Document in
Different Views or When You Scroll the Document" at
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=827488
 
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Chuck

Thanks for your help. For the benefit of others who might
have this problem, I'd like to report that I finally fixed
it by creating a new document and then copying the
contents of the old one into it, being careful not to copy
paragraph marks in the vicinity of the problem area or the
complete table immediately preceding it. (In the case of
the table, I created an empty table in the new document
and then copied the contents of the old one into it.)

The problem area is gone in the new document.

Chuck Holst
 
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