Why don't section breaks work correctly?

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bun4n

Hi,

I'm having major problems in making section breaks work correctly. I have a
10 page document that needs to be a different section for each page. I've
managed to break two pages into sections, but if I try and continue inserting
breaks, it just creates a new page (which is what I don't want). The first
page is OK, then I went to the top of page 2, and did INSERT => SECTION BREAK
=> NEW PAGE. That worked fine. I then went to page 3, and did the same
thing at the top of page 3, and did the same thing, but literally a new page
was created. What am I doing wrong??
Thanks!
 
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Charles Kenyon

Each section introduces a lot of extra overhead into your document. The only
reason I've seen for having separate sections for each page is alternating
portrait and layout views. Why are you putting a section break in for each
page? You may want to look at
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/WorkWithSections.htm.
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bun4n

I need to create new sections as each page has a different header and/or
footer. If there is another way that I can do this without creating section
breaks, then I'd love to hear about it.

I will take a look a the links you posted, Charles.
 
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Daiya Mitchell

Do the different header and footer duplicate any existing text in your
document? What's in each one?
 
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bun4n

Daiya,

HEADER -
The first page has a different header from the remaining 9 pages.
Pages 2 - 10 will show the name of the form controller

FOOTER -
First page has a different footer from the remaining 9 pages.
Pages 2 - 6 indidate the Rev#, Page, and Form page# (are two different things)
Page 7 - 10 indicate the Rev @, Page, and type of page.

So, as you see, it's a little tricky.

Grateful for your help!
 
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Charles Kenyon

The way that usually works is reference to something in the particular page
using the StyleRef field.
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Charles Kenyon

It sounds like you could get by with only one section. In addition to
StyleRef, look into setting the page formatting for different first page for
headers/footers and the use of conditional fields. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Numbering/PageNumbering.htm for ideas on this.
Although it refers to page numbers, you can put an entire header/footer text
as either the truetext or falsetext in a conditional (IF) field.
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Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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bun4n

OK, I figured it out, with you guys help. I did do through they page layout
using Normal View. This way I could see exactly where my sections started
and ended, and I got rid of page breaks at the same time.
 
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