Continuous Section Breaks Become New Page Breaks in Landscape

ID: Q77233

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SUMMARY

Continuous section breaks become next-page section breaks if you change the page orientation or paper size in one of the sections. This change is not reversed if you reverse the page orientation change, so if a continuous section break becomes a next-page section break, it must be manually changed back to continuous.

MORE INFORMATION

In Microsoft Word for Windows version 2.0, you can change the page orientation of one or more sections within the same document.

If you insert a continuous section break between sections that are subsequently formatted for different page orientations or paper sizes (for example, landscape and portrait), the continuous section break becomes a next-page section break. This occurs because a single page cannot contain both portrait and landscape orientation. Each page can contain one orientation only.

If you later change the sections of the document back to the original orientation or paper size, the continuous section break is not restored. The next-page section break remains until you manually change it back to a continuous section break using the Format Section Layout command.

Steps to Reproduce Problem

Note: These steps assume that the default page-setup orientation is portrait.

1. Create a new document and divide it into three sections, separated 

   by continuous section breaks. To insert a continuous section break
   into a document, move the insertion point to the place where you want
   to insert the section break. From the Insert menu, choose Break and
   select Continuous from the Section Break portion of the dialog box.
   Choose the OK button.
2. With the insertion point positioned in the second section, from the 
   Format menu, choose Page Setup. Select Size and Orientation and change
   the Orientation to Landscape. Choose the OK button.
3. From the Format menu, choose Section Layout. The Section Start is now 
   New Page. Choose the Cancel button.
4. Position the insertion point in the second section. From the Format 
   menu, choose Page Setup. Select Size and Orientation and change the
   Orientation to Portrait. Choose the OK button.
5. From the Format menu, choose Section Layout. Notice that the 
   Section Start is still New Page; it has not changed back to
   Continuous. Choose the Cancel button.
KBCategory: kbusage KBSubcategory: kblayout Additional query words: winword winword2 word6 2.0 2.0a 2.0a 2.0b 2.0a-CD 2.0b 2.0a-CD 
Keywords          : kblayout 
Version           : 2.0 2.0a 2.0a-CD 2.0b 2.0c
Platform          : WINDOWS

Last Reviewed: February 6, 1998