Problems with a 700+ document

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pamay

I hope someone can help! I am preparing a 700+ page document in Wor
2007, there are lots of small chapters which begin on a new page. I a
adding chapters, which have been previously formatted as a separat
document - when added to the key publication, I am finding th
formatting of previous pages sometime change. I save each chapter as i
is added ......
I think I have 2 choices
1. Copy everything to the key publication and then go through page b
page and format as I go
or
2. Use some other software.
Any suggestions welcome (sigh!)
Cheers,
Pa
 
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Val

I find it a real pain that formatting of item at top of page sometimes
"passes through" the page break to previous page.

My advice, when inserting a formatted page, put an extra blank paragraph at
end of previous page, insert page break, insert new content on blank page.
That extra empty paragraph on previous should prevent style changes.

Val


I hope someone can help! I am preparing a 700+ page document in Word
2007, there are lots of small chapters which begin on a new page. I am
adding chapters, which have been previously formatted as a separate
document - when added to the key publication, I am finding the
formatting of previous pages sometime change. I save each chapter as it
is added ......
I think I have 2 choices
1. Copy everything to the key publication and then go through page by
page and format as I go
or
2. Use some other software.
Any suggestions welcome (sigh!)
Cheers,
Pat
 
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pamay

Val;2613403 said:
I find it a real pain that formatting of item at top of page sometimes
"passes through" the page break to previous page.

My advice, when inserting a formatted page, put an extra blank
paragraph at
end of previous page, insert page break, insert new content on blank
page.
That extra empty paragraph on previous should prevent style changes.

Val

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Click to expand...

Thanks Val, would never have thought of that - will do

pamay
 
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Beth Melton

I believe this is a bit different than what "pamay" is encountering, but
resolution to the issue you describe is to not use a manual page break
(which, like a paragraph mark, holds formatting and is causing the "bleed")
but to use the "Page Break Before" pagination option instead. This option is
found in the Paragraph dialog box on the Line and Page Breaks tab.

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assistance by email cannot be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Microsoft Office MVP

Coauthor of Word 2007 Inside Out:
http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/books/9801.aspx#AboutTheBook

Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word
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Beth Melton

Can you be more specific as to the formatting problems you are encountering?
Is it style formatting? Page margins?

If it's style formatting, such as the source document has the same named
style as the destination document but uses different formatting, there is
little you can do other than create a new style for one of the documents and
replace the same named style with the new one. (This is fairly easy using
Find/Replace).

If it's page margins or page layout that is changing then you need to insert
a Section Break (not a "standard" page break) between your insertions.

Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email cannot be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Coauthor of Word 2007 Inside Out:
http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/books/9801.aspx#AboutTheBook

Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word
TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/
MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/
 
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