I am writing a long (200 pages plus) document; generally each page is a "chapter"; each time I open many of the "chapters" begin right below the previous one even though when I closed they were on separate pages? Help please...over and out...chuckr6767

You should enter page break or section break after each chapter so that each chapter always start on a new page. To insert page break, go to end of one chapter and press ctrl+enter. I don't know where the commands for inserting a section break are located in word 2002. Should be under tools or something.

Respectfully, I disagree.

Use the built-in heading styles for your chapter titles. Probably Heading 1 or Heading 2 style. Set the paragraph formatting for that style to have a page break before. This will also make it very easy to generate a Table of Contents if you want. See Why use Microsoft Word’s built-in heading styles?

Manually inserted breaks cause problems. They are seldom needed.