Word help again please - outlines and headings

[TUS 373]

Morning all,

Can anyone help me with this little question please?

I have two pages. The first ends with a section of body text. The following page should start with a Level 1 heading. However the last paragraph of page 1 seems to be linked to the heading of page 2. They both set to body text - or both set to Level 1.

If I put in a page break, of course I get new page in between that I don't want. So, what is the right way to split these pages so these two sections of text become independent and can be set to different levels. Its driving me mad!

Many thanks
Bryan

[pdV6]

Do you have a linefeed character rather than a paragraph marker at the end of the 1st "paragraph"?

If that's not it, try inserting a section break rather than a page break.

[TUS 373]

Excuse dumb question, what's a line feed character?

[SGirl]

Stick a carriage return after the text that comes before the page break. That should do it.

[pdV6]

TUS 373 said:

Excuse dumb question, what's a line feed character?

If you turn on the view that shows non-printing characters, it looks a bit like this:

<-'

As opposed to a paragraph mark, which looks like a backwards 'P'

A paragraph mark marks the end of a paragraph and a linefeed just ends the current line and starts a new one without ending the paragraph, so the style will be carried forward.

Return/enter gives you a paragraph and Shift+Return gives a linefeed.

[TUS 373]

Learning all the time - thanks guys.

Doing a mammoth dissertation at the moment and getting stressed when Word does things I'm not expecting. I know its my fault, not Word's (usually) - but my laptop nearly got thrown against a wall in frustration yesterday.

And section numbering....if only I knew why the first half of the document, everything was easy, then suddenly it wants to put section 2.4.1. in after section 5 !!!!! Aaaarrgggh!

[simpo two]

SGirl said:

Stick a carriage return after the text that comes before the page break. That should do it.

My PC doesn't have a carriage - what should I do
I use Word quite a lot and don't bother with headers and footers - just slap it all in the body and use Enter or Delete to separate the chunks and hoof it up and down pages. Not technical but it works.
I always keep the view in Print Layout form and set it to exactly A4 size.