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Word - Same Line Page Breaks Visibly Change Formatting
Within the last week or so, Word suddenly has started changing the formatting of visible text when a page break is used on the same line. How can this be corrected? (To be clear, yes, a page break co...
Typically, a manual page break would move the text to the next page. Are you displaying the document in Draft view or Web Layout view perhaps?
If you mean that formatting applied to the text is "inherited" by the text that follows the break (on the next page), that may happen with manual page breaks. It is a known limitation, especially in older versions of Word which didn't necessarily add a paragraph mark with the page break.
As Charles suggested, it would help if you uploaded a screen shot with nonprinting marks displayed.