User Profile
markaaronky1390
Copper Contributor
Joined 2 years ago
User Widgets
Recent Discussions
problematic page breaks--getting unexplainable blank pages
I am working on a book where each chapter is, of course, separated from the next chapter by a page break at the end of each chapter. I'm noticing a very odd situation where, after a chapter-ending page break, I am getting a completely blank page before my next chapter begins. I have "show formatting" turned on and I don't see anything at all that would be causing this. There's simply a page break at the end of my chapter (see screen snap 1), an empty page, and then my next chapter begins. This is happening randomly a couple times in my book, and I'm at a loss to explain it. I haven't done anything funky like defining a fixed page size or anything. This manuscript will be converted to PDF and uploaded to Kindle, where pagination will eventually be decided by the device the reader is using. So the only time I'm EVER manually inserting a page break is at the end of each chapter. Attached are a couple screen snaps to illustrate what I'm seeing. The first is the very end of the chapter, and you can see the spurious blank page starting out beneath it. The second screen snap is AFTER the completely blank page, where my next chapter begins. I know it may LOOK in the screen snap like the page break is on its own page, but I'm not placing it there. I'm placing it right after the words "came from." and the blue paragraph marker. Word itself is deciding to advance to another page. As for the little grey paragraph format marks? I'm not inserting those. Word seems to do that on its own. Only the blue paragraph indicators are ones I've inserted. Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.Re: Simply cannot delete a section break. It is impossible. Cannot be done. Please prove me wrong.
Thanks so much for the reply. I've tried your suggestions. I had to combine them with some help from the Kindle forum and I think you and the others have led me to a solution. I cannot find anyway to see draft mode and word help doesn't say anything about it so I couldn't go that route, I also tried putting the cursor before the break but hitting delete there just deleted the text before the break. What ended up solving it was shutting down word, rebooting my computer, then re-opening the document and placing a few letters immediately before the section break. THEN, FINALLY, I could select both the new letters AND the section break. I'm not making this up... before rebooting the section break was never selectable. So problem solved, though I am very wary of section breaks now. I need them, but man... Anyway, thank you so much for the response!Simply cannot delete a section break. It is impossible. Cannot be done. Please prove me wrong.
So I was introduced to section breaks as a means of getting page numbering up-to-spec for book I've written (roman. numerals in the front material, arabic numerals in the book itself). I'm using the latest version of Word (16.8?) on Mac. To my horror, I've found that it is impossible to delete section breaks once they're in my document. I have spend an entire day in Google on this subject, and every single suggestion fails. So I have enabled showing markup, so I can see page breaks, section breaks, paragraphs I cannot select a section break. Word will not allow that. So I can't select and delete it. I cannot put the cursor after a section break and then hit the delete button as many suggest. Word will not allow the cursor to be placed after a section break. Putting the cursor before the section break, as other articles recommend, is just wrong. All you're doing there is deleting text before the section break. Why is this so hard? I've lost a whole day on something that should be simple. In the screenshot from my document below, The section break simply cannot be touched.
