Footer and Section Break (Next Page) on the same page

J

Jukka

Placing 'Footer' and 'Section Break (Next Page)' elements
on the same page causes some strange behavior.

So when I place a section break (next page) on the page
that I very much would like to see as the last page of the
current section the footer somehow stretches to cover half
the page. This happens although the footer contains only
one or two entries.

So in the worst case I end up with a page that has only
few lines of text and a footer that takes half the page
but only contains one entry.

Try to damp or suppress footer down to the bottom with
hitting 'carriage return' doesn't help. Cursor jumps to
next page leaving footer where it was (middle of the page).

Only solution I have found (is not beautiful but works) is
to continue to feed new lines until the next page contains
only empty lines. At this point the footer on the previous
page has landed to its normal place. With this solution I
end up with one or more blank pages when I start to print
my document.

My Word is Word 2000 build 9.0.4402 SR-1.
 
J

Jukka

Okey, I found the answer by myself.

Go to 'File' -> 'Page Setup' -> 'Layout' -> 'Vertical
Alignment' and set it to 'bottom'. This makes you footers
stick to the bottom of the page also in case of the last
page of the current section.
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Placing 'Footer' and 'Section Break (Next Page)' elements
on the same page causes some strange behavior.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill

I have never seen this behavior, and I have created hundreds of documents
with footers, section breaks, and Top vertical alignment. Even setting the
alignment to Center should not make any difference in the position of the
footer, which should rest at the footer margin set in Page Setup. I suspect
your document may have some incipient corruption.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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