Mystery page break in Word 2002

[Rosebud]

A client has sent me a Word 2002 file with a mystery page break. There is no indication that there's a page break, or a section break, but when printing (or in print preview) the page breaks! I know it's close to Halloween, but ... a haunted Word doc. The clients thinks the file might have been converted some time ago from a Word Perfect 5.1 file to a Word 95 file. Now she's sick of dealing with it!

Any ideas?

Rosebud

 

[GoodOmens]

It could be the paragraph formatting. Under Format=>Paragraphs=>Line and Page Breaks the problem paragraph might have Keep lines Together, Keep with Next or Page Break Before checked.

 

[Doroth]

I don't know if this will help, but I have run into a similar situation on converted documents. Usually they come in the form of a line that can't be selected or easily deleted, but there are plenty of irritating issues that come up otherwise. If it is a conversion problem, I suspect that this may help:

1. Go to the end of the last line before the page break then hit return several times.

2. Go to the beginning of the first line after the mystery page break and hit return a couple times.

3. Go back to the space in-between the ines that you just created, and delete them.

It's easy and I usually get pretty good results fixing this type of converted doc error. Good Luck.

 

[Doroth]

I don't know if this will help, but I have run into a similar situation on converted documents. Usually they come in the form of a line that can't be selected or easily deleted, but there are plenty of irritating issues that come up otherwise. If it is a conversion problem, I suspect that this may help:

1. Go to the end of the last line before the page break then hit return several times.

2. Go to the beginning of the first line after the mystery page break and hit return a couple times.

3. Highlight the newly created space that you added in between the text, and delete.

It's easy and I usually get pretty good results fixing this type of converted doc error. It seems that you need to create a buffer zone to catch the mysterious element. Without adding lines in, it doesn't work correctly. Good Luck.

 

[Rosebud]

GoodOmens - you're the winner! Thanks so much!

Rosebud