If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#1
|
|||
|
|||
How can I make Word 2007 show page breaks in draft view?
I cannot get my copy of Word 2007 to show hard page breaks in draft
view. In Word 2000, hard page breaks were displayed in Normal View as a dotted line with the words "Page Break" in the middle: ------------------------Page Break--------------------------- In Word 2007, column breaks are displayed that way: -----------------------Column Break-------------------------- and section breaks are displayed with a row of double dots: :::::::::::::::Section Break (Continuous):::::::::::::::::::: but page breaks are not displayed at all. If I set the Page Break Before option for a paragraph, then that page break will be displayed as a dotted line, but without any words: ------------------------------------------------------------- If I click on the Show/Hide Formatting Marks icon (Crtl+*), then the hard page breaks will be displayed, but with a short dotted line followed by a paragraph mark: ----------Page Break----------P Is there any way to get Word 2007 to show page breaks like it does other breaks and like Word 2000 did? |
#2
|
|||
|
|||
How can I make Word 2007 show page breaks in draft view?
To see the Page Breaks in Draft View, you must toggle the ShowAll
(non-printing characters) command (Ctrl+Shift+8). -- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP "Sesquipedalian Sam" wrote in message ... I cannot get my copy of Word 2007 to show hard page breaks in draft view. In Word 2000, hard page breaks were displayed in Normal View as a dotted line with the words "Page Break" in the middle: ------------------------Page Break--------------------------- In Word 2007, column breaks are displayed that way: -----------------------Column Break-------------------------- and section breaks are displayed with a row of double dots: :::::::::::::::Section Break (Continuous):::::::::::::::::::: but page breaks are not displayed at all. If I set the Page Break Before option for a paragraph, then that page break will be displayed as a dotted line, but without any words: ------------------------------------------------------------- If I click on the Show/Hide Formatting Marks icon (Crtl+*), then the hard page breaks will be displayed, but with a short dotted line followed by a paragraph mark: ----------Page Break----------P Is there any way to get Word 2007 to show page breaks like it does other breaks and like Word 2000 did? |
#3
|
|||
|
|||
How can I make Word 2007 show page breaks in draft view?
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:45:03 -0000, "Terry Farrell"
wrote: To see the Page Breaks in Draft View, you must toggle the ShowAll (non-printing characters) command (Ctrl+Shift+8). Do you know (a) Why page breaks are treated differently from all other breaks? and (b) Why this was changed from the behavior in Word 2000? (I don't know about XP.) |
#4
|
|||
|
|||
How can I make Word 2007 show page breaks in draft view?
Nope. It was the same in W2003 and I have never been happy with the way
Section Break and Page Break displays are controlled in all Views. Terry Farrell "Sesquipedalian Sam" wrote in message ... On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:45:03 -0000, "Terry Farrell" wrote: To see the Page Breaks in Draft View, you must toggle the ShowAll (non-printing characters) command (Ctrl+Shift+8). Do you know (a) Why page breaks are treated differently from all other breaks? and (b) Why this was changed from the behavior in Word 2000? (I don't know about XP.) |
#5
|
|||
|
|||
How can I make Word 2007 show page breaks in draft view?
Do a hard page break and then press the delete - button. Peculiar, but works.
I cannot get my copy of Word 2007 to show hard page breaks in draft view. In Word 2000, hard page breaks were displayed in Normal View as a dotted line with the words "Page Break" in the middle: ------------------------Page Break--------------------------- In Word 2007, column breaks are displayed that way: -----------------------Column Break-------------------------- and section breaks are displayed with a row of double dots: :::::::::::::::Section Break (Continuous):::::::::::::::::::: but page breaks are not displayed at all. If I set the Page Break Before option for a paragraph, then that page break will be displayed as a dotted line, but without any words: ------------------------------------------------------------- If I click on the Show/Hide Formatting Marks icon (Crtl+*), then the hard page breaks will be displayed, but with a short dotted line followed by a paragraph mark: ----------Page Break----------P Is there any way to get Word 2007 to show page breaks like it does other breaks and like Word 2000 did? |
#6
|
|||
|
|||
How can I make Word 2007 show page breaks in draft view?
On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:39:05 +0000, "Ian"
wrote: Do a hard page break and then press the delete - button. Peculiar, but works. On my system, this only works sometimes and only temporarily. If I start with a new document, press Ctrl-Enter, then Backspace (--), the page break indicator appears, as you say. It's the full width of the page, as in Word 2000: ------------------------Page Break--------------------------- If I then press Enter again (with the cursor immediately after the page break, it disappears. I can bring it back using Ctrl+*, but then is the short version ----------Page Break----------P Looks like a bug. I cannot get my copy of Word 2007 to show hard page breaks in draft view. In Word 2000, hard page breaks were displayed in Normal View as a dotted line with the words "Page Break" in the middle: ------------------------Page Break--------------------------- In Word 2007, column breaks are displayed that way: -----------------------Column Break-------------------------- and section breaks are displayed with a row of double dots: :::::::::::::::Section Break (Continuous):::::::::::::::::::: but page breaks are not displayed at all. If I set the Page Break Before option for a paragraph, then that page break will be displayed as a dotted line, but without any words: ------------------------------------------------------------- If I click on the Show/Hide Formatting Marks icon (Crtl+*), then the hard page breaks will be displayed, but with a short dotted line followed by a paragraph mark: ----------Page Break----------P Is there any way to get Word 2007 to show page breaks like it does other breaks and like Word 2000 did? |
#7
|
|||
|
|||
How can I make Word 2007 show page breaks in draft view?
I believe this behavior is one of W2007's improvements.
Background: In W2003 & before, when you insert a manual page break before a heading, the page break will be in the heading's style. This can sometimes cause problems with the TOC, where a hyperlink from the TOC could take the reader to the page before the heading. In the outline view there could be blank lines at that heading level. The page break indicator looks something like this: ----------------------------------------------Page Break---------------------- ------------------------ Changing the page break style changes the heading style after it. The simplest, though not my preferred, way of getting rid of the heading-styled page break problem is to delete the page break and and set the heading paragraph to page break before. In W2007, when you insert a manual page break before a heading, the page break will still be in the heading's style. But the page break indicator looks like this: ---------------------Page Break---------------------ΒΆ It's in its own paragraph, and its style can be changed without affecting the style of the heading below. Hooray. I do think it is a mistake that the "short' manual page break doesn't show up in regular draft view like other page breaks do. PamC Sesquipedalian Sam wrote: To see the Page Breaks in Draft View, you must toggle the ShowAll (non-printing characters) command (Ctrl+Shift+8). Do you know (a) Why page breaks are treated differently from all other breaks? and (b) Why this was changed from the behavior in Word 2000? (I don't know about XP.) -- Message posted via http://www.officekb.com |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|