If Word doesn't know what a page is, then why can I put in a Page Break, or Next Page section break?

If I was to replace the Page Breaks at the bottom of each page with a Section Break, could I then use a Macro to do what I am hoping to?

I think if you try to put 3000 Section breaks in a Word document it will become practically unusable. Section breaks carry a huge amount of formatting.

• What gets carried over when you start a new section?
• Working with sections by Dave Rado, MVP

If you add a page break, you tell Word to start a new page. If you add a Section break, you tell Word to start a new Section. In the absence of those, Word starts a new page during printing depending on the print parameters



There is no such thing as a page style in Word.


You can set paragraph styles for your bottom four lines.
You can use a frame as part of this style.
You can use the StyleRef field in footers to change the contents on every page.


Word is not a typewriter.
Basic Concepts of Microsoft Word - from Shauna Kelly