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I'm having trouble finding the proper kind of break to do what I want. I'll try to explain what I wish I had and what I'm able to obtain. I wish I had that: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Etiam nisl dui, tincidunt at tincidunt sed, auctor et orci. Vivamus eros leo, tempus nec mi sed, molestie bibendum augue. Nulla tempor rhoncus est a consectetur.
Ut eu posuere lacus. Vestibulum iaculis mauris ligula, eu auctor lectus mollis in. In sodales consectetur ex, eget tempus arcu lacinia ut.
Aenean consectetur neque mauris, sit amet malesuada sem varius non. Donec ac vulputate massa. Nullam ultrices et nisl rhoncus tincidunt.
(see picture 1) Integer sit amet sem sollicitudin, consectetur leo posuere, aliquam est. Aenean interdum est dictum arcu blandit, in ultrices ex maximus. Fusce nec dolor at sapien cursus - (end of page because it's normally filled) Picture 1 - (end of page) tincidunt facilisis sit amet arcu.
Vivamus id ipsum vel urna luctus ultrices. Phasellus lorem leo, iaculis at finibus at, viverra vehicula urna. Cras pulvinar et tellus ac luctus.
Integer id aliquet felis. In hac habitasse platea dictumst. In other words, I want the text to go on as it would normally and when the page is filled to jump to the page with the picture and then go back to the text, as if the page with the picture wasn't inserted, without breaking the paragraph. For now what I have is: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Etiam nisl dui, tincidunt at tincidunt sed, auctor et orci. Vivamus eros leo, tempus nec mi sed, molestie bibendum augue.
Nulla tempor rhoncus est a consectetur. Ut eu posuere lacus. Vestibulum iaculis mauris ligula, eu auctor lectus mollis in. In sodales consectetur ex, eget tempus arcu lacinia ut. Aenean consectetur neque mauris, sit amet malesuada sem varius non. Donec ac vulputate massa. Nullam ultrices et nisl rhoncus tincidunt.
(see picture 1) Manual page break+blank space I wish I could get rid of - end of page Picture 1 manual page break - end of page Integer sit amet sem sollicitudin, consectetur leo posuere, aliquam est. Aenean interdum est dictum arcu blandit, in ultrices ex maximus. Fusce nec dolor at sapien cursus tincidunt facilisis sit amet arcu. Vivamus id ipsum vel urna luctus ultrices. Phasellus lorem leo, iaculis at finibus at, viverra vehicula urna. Cras pulvinar et tellus ac luctus. Integer id aliquet felis.
In hac habitasse platea dictumst Does someone has any idea on how to achieve that? @FleetCommand This actually does make sense. In the OP's case, he wants the text to completely fill the first page and have the ability to add or remove from the text without moving the image on the next page. He's using a manual page break to do this, but as soon as you add text to the first page, that manual page break moves to the next page (moving the image 1 page down and creating a new page that's almost entirely blank). If you remove text from the first page, the manual break moves up creating blank space at the end of the page. – Apr 22 '17 at 12:08.
(I tried to flag this question as a duplicate of the where I originally posted, but it wasn't possible to do so, so I'm reposting the answer here.) I want the text to go on as it would normally and when the page is filled to jump to the page with the picture and then go back to the text, as if the page with the picture wasn't inserted Unfortunately, this simply cannot be done. Word has a lot of options for controlling how and where an image is anchored, but when you do not want the image to hide text behind it (using the In Front of Text wrap option), all of the anchors move when text on the prior page is moved to the image's page. Here are some of the strategies I've tried over the years to (unsuccessfully) solve this problem:. Anchor the image in the page header. This works great if you want the image to be locked to the first page of a document because you can use the Different first page header option. However, it's pointless because nobody is trying to add text before the first page. Anchor the image with absolute placement on the page.
This ensures the image never moves on the page on which it is placed, but if enough text is added before the page such that it intrudes upon the page in question, the entire image simply moves to the next page. Employ a Next Page Section Break. It's at this point we realize we're desperate and out of options.
With a Section Break you can apply different page settings for a particular page and ensure text in the prior section cannot intrude on the new section, but again, when text in the prior section is moved down into the page with the image, Word simply moves the image (and the section's start point) to the next page. Word is a good document editor, but it's not meant for desktop publishing. Programs like Microsoft Publisher or Adobe PageMaker are better suited to requirements such as this one and include features that handle these tasks much better than Word. As you may (or may not) have figured out, you can create a page break by pressing CTRL+ Enter. This will ensure that when you add text on the current page, the page break moves and other text does not move too. But by default, word shows the layout when you print out your content, which means that even if a page break exists, you still see the empty space below a page break until the end of the document is reached.
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If you are designing your document to be printed, this is of course ideal, but your question is not about printing it out and you want to get rid of the empty space. Luckily, there are a few methods to do so.
In the default view, you can simply move the mouse cursor to between two pages, and see how the cursor changes. If you click (or double click) at that spot, the empty spaces will disappear and the pages shrink. You can still clearly see the page breaks, but not a big massive empty block of white.
An alternative way is to change the view to webview. This will change the document to one large white area. Page breaks are still shown as dotted lines, but nothing more.
To do this, click the 2nd or 3rd item on the bottom left corner of word. Next to the horizontal scroll bar. I am not in reach of word as I'm at home, so things might be slightly off. I'll correct any mistakes monday when I get back to work. Thank you but you're not answering what I asked for. You are telling me to switch to draft view.
The document is indeed meant to be printed and I'm aware of manual page breaks. I could very well insert a manual page break, insert my picture and its caption and insert another manual page break (it's in fact, what I'm showing in my example 2), but it's not giving me the result that I want. What I want is the page break to occur when the page is normally filled (without splitting the paragraph), have my page with the picture, and then have another page with the end of the paragraph.
– Apr 21 '17 at 19:23.
Hi Bobbi, To remove the section break, one method is to be in Print layout view turn on the nonprinting character display using the show/hide icon from the toolbar. Place your cursor just before the section break indicator in your document and tap the delete key twice. wrote in message news:[email protected]. No, it doesn't work. I've had this problem previously.
Once you insert a 'section break (next page)' it's almost impossible to get rid of. Bobbi - Bob Buckland?:-) MS Office System Products MVP.Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends. Bobbi 13/2/2008, 23:22 น. Hi, Bob- No, that's not working for me either. (That's what I normally try to do.) It deletes other stuff than the section break!
My problem always occurs in documents where I switch from one column (for headings) to two columns (for text) using section breaks. Most of the section breaks are continuous, but sometimes I need to use a section break- next page, and those are the ones that are so hard to get rid of. However, I think it's easier to delete in Normal View, not print layout. Bobbi 'Bob Buckland?:-)' wrote in message news:[email protected].
DeanH 14/2/2008, 4:03 น. Now I understand, this in relation to a Multi-Column format. This can cause aggrevation and I have had the same problem in the past.
Section Break Continuous is the best option to use for Column format changes, one at start and one at end of the multiple column section (then end one as you probably know helps with balancing the column lengths). Is the Next Page break you wish to delete at the start, middle or end of the multi-column section? Is the NextPage break the one that starts the multi-column section?
If so, instead of deleting, have you tried changing the break to a continuous and then use Page Break Before paragraph setting to accomplish the desired effect. DeanH Bobbi 14/2/2008, 20:54 น. Check out: i guess all you have to do is put the cursor BEFORE the break and just 'delete' it rather than trying to 'backspace' it:) On Wednesday, February 13, 2008 1:29 AM Bobbi wrote: Word 2003: How can I delete a 'section break (next page)'? It just will not go away? Bobbi On Wednesday, February 13, 2008 3:23 AM Dean wrote: Try selecting the previous and following paragraph marks as well, then delete. Does this work?
DeanH 'Bobbi' wrote: On Wednesday, February 13, 2008 12:49 PM Bobbi wrote: No, it does not work. I have had this problem previously. Once you insert a 'section break (next page)' it is almost impossible to get rid of.
Sigh! Bobbi On Wednesday, February 13, 2008 1:23 PM Bob Buckland?:- ) wrote: Hi BobbiTo remove the section break, one method is to be in Print layout view turn on the nonprinting character display using the show/hide icon from the toolbar.
Place your cursor just before the section break indicator in your document and tap the delete key twice. wrote in message news:[email protected]. No, it doesn't work. I've had this problem previously. Once you insert a 'section break (next page)' it's almost impossible to get rid of. Sigh! Bobbi - Bob Buckland?:-) MS Office System Products MVP.Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends.
On Thursday, February 14, 2008 2:22 AM Bobbi wrote: Hi, Bob- No, that's not working for me either. (That's what I normally try to do.) It deletes other stuff than the section break! My problem always occurs in documents where I switch from one column (for headings) to two columns (for text) using section breaks. Most of the section breaks are continuous, but sometimes I need to use a section break- next page, and those are the ones that are so hard to get rid of. However, I think it's easier to delete in Normal View, not print layout. Bobbi 'Bob Buckland?:-)' wrote in message news:[email protected].
On Thursday, February 14, 2008 7:03 AM Dean wrote: Now I understand, this in relation to a Multi-Column format. This can cause aggrevation and I have had the same problem in the past. Section Break Continuous is the best option to use for Column format changes, one at start and one at end of the multiple column section (then end one as you probably know helps with balancing the column lengths). Is the Next Page break you wish to delete at the start, middle or end of the multi-column section? Is the NextPage break the one that starts the multi-column section? If so, instead of deleting, have you tried changing the break to a continuous and then use Page Break Before paragraph setting to accomplish the desired effect.
DeanH 'Bobbi' wrote: On Thursday, February 14, 2008 11:54 PM Bobbi wrote: Hi, Dean- You're right that using Section Break Continuous and then Page Break seems to be the best way to go. But it seems to be easier to delete the Section Break Next Page while in Normal View.
However, I'm just not gonna use it any more. Bobbi 'DeanH' wrote in message news:[email protected].
On Friday, February 15, 2008 8:37 AM Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: Deleting section breaks rarely works the way you intended, but you can change the section start type on the Layout tab of Page Setup. - Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA 'Bobbi' wrote in message news:[email protected]. On Monday, February 18, 2008 4:25 AM Stefan Blom wrote: For more on what Suzanne is talking about, see. - Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP 'Suzanne S. Barnhill' wrote in message Submitted via EggHeadCafe - Software Developer Portal of Choice Book Review: Excel 2010 - The Missing Manual OReilly a d 23/9/2010, 2:10 น.
Check out::) On Thursday, September 23, 2010 5:09 AM a d wrote: check out: i guess all you have to do is put the cursor BEFORE the break and just 'delete' it rather than trying to 'backspace' it :) Submitted via EggHeadCafe - Software Developer Portal of Choice Lucene.Net Indexing Searching Entry Level Tutorial a d 23/9/2010, 2:10 น. Check out::) On Thursday, September 23, 2010 5:10 AM a d wrote: check out: i guess all you have to do is put the cursor BEFORE the break and just 'delete' it rather than trying to 'backspace' it :) Submitted via EggHeadCafe - Software Developer Portal of Choice Kentico CMS for Sites [email protected] 18/2/2014, 6:00 น. On Wednesday, February 13, 2008 at 10:23:32 AM UTC-8, Bob Buckland?:-) At Beautiful Downtown wrote: Hi BobbiTo remove the section break, one method is to be in Print layout view turn on the nonprinting character display using the show/hide icon from the toolbar. Place your cursor just before the section break indicator in your document and tap the delete key twice. THANK YOU!!!
I highlighted and pressed the delete button TWICE, quickly, and it finally worked. Only post that has helped! My thesis project thanks you. [email protected] 30/4/2017, 10:57 น.
On Wednesday, 13 February 2008 08:29:37 UTC+2, Bobbi wrote: Word 2003: How can I delete a 'section break (next page)'? It just won't go away? Bobbi I need to work in Track Changes so turning it off was not an option.
But I got it to work as follows: 1. Make sure both sections (before and after the break) have the same margins, orientation, header, etc.
Insert a blank line before the section break 3. My second section started with a table. Use Ctrl-Shift-Enter to insert a blank line before the table.
Select from the first blank line to the second, so the section break is included in the middle. Then click Delete and the whole thing went away including the break. [email protected] 5/3/2018, 12:17 น.
On Wednesday, February 13, 2008 at 12:29:37 AM UTC-6, Bobbi wrote: Word 2003: How can I delete a 'section break (next page)'? It just won't go away? Bobbi The best way that I have found working so far is as follows: click 'Show hide' button on home to see the spaces and of course the section break that you want to remove. Then Hit ctrl+G, then on the 'Find and Replace' task bar that opens, go to 'Replace' tab then where it says 'Find what' type ^b and click find next, once you made sure that its the same section break that you want to remove, hit the Replace button on the same task bar. Make sure the 'replace with' part is left blank. [email protected] 3/4/2019, 0:04 น. I have Word 2010 and this didn't work for me.
Any other ideas? Here's my situation: Page 50 has 2 columns at the top.
I have a 'section break (continuous)' in the middle of page 50 and then 1 column below the continuous section break. I have 2 lines of text and then a 'section break (next page)' this is the one I want to delete. On page 51 I have 1 column. The problem is that when I delete the 'Section break (next page)', the 'section break (continuous)' converts itself to a 'section break (next page)'. This happens regardless of whether or not I am in Print layout, web layout, or outline views.