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BriGB
Sep 21, 2023Copper Contributor
SECTIONS AND HEADERS
I'm producing a book with each chapter in a separate section, each first section page being an odd page and having no header. Thereafter odd pages have different text for each section, even page hav...
Charles_Kenyon
Sep 21, 2023Bronze Contributor
This can be complex and section breaks can be:
- Difficult to find or see
- Generated spontaneously (seemingly) by Word
First, make sure that your sections are displayed in your status bar.
Second, turn on display of non-printing characters. If you cannot see the section breaks with them displayed, switch into draft view.
You can also find section breaks by searching for ^b.
Changing orientation, columns, or margins will insert one or more section breaks, even though you are not changing chapters. By default the new section carries over settings from the previous section.
Each section has six settings for Link to Previous. There is one for each of the three headers and three footers. These are independent.
See my Header/Footer Settings Recap
I hope you are using the StyleRef Field.