Section Breaks Change Character

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Don

When I put a continuous section break into a document,
I'll often come back and find that Word has changed it to
a next-page break. The same thing happens when I put in
an odd-page break. How can I stop Word from doing this?
Thanks in advance.

Don
 
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Suzanne S. Barnhill

I don't know of any way to stop it, but sometimes you can change the breaks
back by changing "Section start" on the Layout tab of Page Setup. If
"Continuous" is changing to "Next page," the likelihood is that you are
changing something that can't be changed on the same page, such as page
orientation, or that you are inserting a footnote in a multi-column section
followed by a single-column section. If the problem is the latter, see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/FtnoteSpanColumns.htm
 
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