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why is this SO hard ......
- Hi Charles,
I think I got it ...... I took the pages I needed from the old document - cut and pasted the pages I wanted plus the preceding page and the page following what I needed - so if I want the middle page I grabbed 3 in total.
- Deleted page one and it usually shifted the document up one page so now it's down to 2 pages
- Then clicked the Show / Hide button - Cntl*Shift*8
- Place the cursor in the portrait page before the section break;
- Click the Page Setup dialogue box launcher (Layout > Page Setup);
- Clicked OK (or press Enter), without making any changes to the settings;
- Place the cursor in the landscape page following the section break;
- Press F4.
That seems to clear out that last blank page I never needed !!
Cheers'
Dave
Hi Dave,
I've downloaded your document. I am unsure what problem you are having. What, exactly, are you trying to extract?
I will work with you on it, but only after you tell me that you've at least looked at the following and the Shauna Kelly tutorials I linked previously:
Word Doesn't Know What a Page Is by Daiya Mitchell, MVP
I would also recommend, but not require, that you look at the Working With Sections article.
Viewed in Draft view, this is what I am seeing:
Each section break carries with it the formatting of page numbering, headers and footers, margins, columns, and orientation for the text that precedes it.
"You need to learn how your tools work or you will cut your hand off!" (My dad!)
This form could be possibly improved by using Content Control CheckBoxes which would be active online instead of the images (if it is to be used on the computer rather than simply printed). It could be improved by removal of empty paragraphs.
OK, fair enough, I'll read those articles over the weekend and go from there........
I attached a few screen caps to show you what I'm seeing:
- the one is both pages where the whole document is two pages, and you can see that hidden page break down at the bottom right. (page 1 +2 sample) attached it twice by mistake
- the next sample is what happens to the document where everything shifts down (of course) because the formatting disappears after I delete that hidden page break in the first example.....
(page 1 + 2 after sample)
- the last one is just a screen shot showing that over all, I just need the entire document to be one page with that page 2 and the NOTES field gone entirely. (need it as one page sample)
I've read that you can save the formatting of the previous page by clicking the header in specific places and copying the setting with the F4 key but I can't get it to work.
Anyway - I have my weekend reading and dad sounds like a smart cookie !! 🙂
Cheers'
Dave
Remember, there is a huge difference in Word between page breaks and section breaks. Section breaks contain formatting information. Page breaks do not.
If you use the full editor when posting you can simply paste screenshots.
You may want to also look at Deleting Section Breaks at the bottom of Understanding Section Breaks by Tony Jollans, MVP.
Hi, Well it was an OK read and I had no idea word was so complicated.
I went to the master doc - made a copy of the whole thing to work from, opened that copy - went down to the page I need ( pg.194) and added a Section Break (Cont) as the "Preserving section formatting when pasting between documents" article suggested in that wordmvp doc.
I put it just ahead of the section break next page and cut and pasted the stuff I want on to a new doc and it copied just the page I wanted but for some reason it's added another blank page with the header and footer on it and it and I can't delete that page 2 .......... so mild progress I guess?
How can I still get rid of that blank second page with the header and footer on it? Also, after I did the paste in to the new doc the same Section Break (next Page is there but that Section Break (Cont) that I put in is gone. Is that normal? In this copy I sent you - its there now.
Its kind of the same thing as my original problem, I have a two page doc that I need and only want page one and its contents - the second black page with the header and footer are garbage.
Cheers'
Dave