Odd page break

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Brian Gotjunk

I am having a problem with Word 97 placing a page break at about a quarter
of the way down the page on the first or second page of new documents that
I create.

The problem appears most frequently when I am using an outline numbered
document.

Can someone tell me how to fix this problem?
 
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Shauna Kelly

Hi Brian

Are you using heading styles to create your outline numbered list? If so,
then the likely culprit is that the built-in heading styles are set to "Keep
with Next". Generally, that's a good thing, because it keeps the heading on
the same page as the next paragraph (which would generally be ordinary body
text). So it prevents a heading appearing alone at the bottom of a page. But
if you have many headings following one another, with no intervening body
text, then Word will do its utmost to keep all these paragraphs on the same
page as the next paragraph. Eventually, either Word runs into a paragraph
that is *not* set to Keep with Next, and it breaks there, or if it can't
find any such paragraph, Word will cause a page break where it sees fit.

Depending on your needs, the solution is to modify (say) Heading 3 so it
does not Keep with Next, or insert some body text into the document.

Hope this helps.

Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP.
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word
 
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Brian Gotjunk

Shauna,

Thanks, that solved my problem. One of the styles I created did not have
'Keep with next' and was causing the weird page breaks. I added that to the
style and it cleared up the problem.

Brian

Shauna Kelly said:
Hi Brian

Are you using heading styles to create your outline numbered list? If so,
then the likely culprit is that the built-in heading styles are set to "Keep
with Next". Generally, that's a good thing, because it keeps the heading on
the same page as the next paragraph (which would generally be ordinary body
text). So it prevents a heading appearing alone at the bottom of a page. But
if you have many headings following one another, with no intervening body
text, then Word will do its utmost to keep all these paragraphs on the same
page as the next paragraph. Eventually, either Word runs into a paragraph
that is *not* set to Keep with Next, and it breaks there, or if it can't
find any such paragraph, Word will cause a page break where it sees fit.

Depending on your needs, the solution is to modify (say) Heading 3 so it
does not Keep with Next, or insert some body text into the document.

Hope this helps.

Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP.
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word
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Suzanne S. Barnhill

You really don't want to have *all* the styles formatted as "Keep with
next." This just keeps Word in a constant state of frustration. Instead,
*remove* that property from all the styles except the ones for which it is
really vital (true headings, or the top level of an outline, for example).



Brian Gotjunk said:
Shauna,

Thanks, that solved my problem. One of the styles I created did not have
'Keep with next' and was causing the weird page breaks. I added that to the
style and it cleared up the problem.

Brian
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