Word 2013 - When deleting section breaks, cursor jumps to beginning of document

macropod · #1 07-01-2016, 06:01 AM

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Originally Posted by ranholmom66

I am aware I can use find/replace, but that wouldn't work with what I am doing. These are 50+ page documents, and each page has a section break because of different headings.

You can, of course, use Find/Replace selectively. That said, your description suggests you should be taking a different approach. For example, if you need some body text in the page header, you could do that with a StyleRef field.

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Originally Posted by ranholmom66

In this particular instance, I was "repaginating" to make sure text goes all the way to bottom, and I needed to pull the text from the next page up, hence, deleting the section break.

Surely even that would compromise the headers???

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Originally Posted by ranholmom66

I really wonder if it is a "bug" in Word 2013 because it was just installed on my computer, and Word 2010 NEVER did this.

Maybe. I don't have a copy of Office 2013 to test with.

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