WD: Actions That Invoke Repagination

ID: Q119943

The information in this article applies to:

• Microsoft Word for Windows, versions 6.0, 6.0a, 6.0c
• Microsoft Word for Windows 95, versions 7.0, 7.0a
• Microsoft Word for the Macintosh, versions 6.0, 6.0.1, 6.0.1a
• Microsoft Word for Windows NT, version 6.0
• Microsoft Word 97 for Windows
• Microsoft Word 98 Macintosh Edition

SUMMARY

By default, Microsoft Word updates page breaks whenever you pause while typing or editing. This is called background pagination. Background pagination is always turned on in print preview and page layout view, but you can turn it off for other views. Even when background pagination is off, however, certain actions cause Word to repaginate the document. Repagination happens whenever it is important for Word to show page breaks accurately.

The following is a list of actions that cause Word to repaginate the document, even when Background Pagination is disabled:

• Switching from normal view to header/footer view
• Switching from normal view to page layout view
• Switching to print preview
• Printing
• In print preview, choosing Shrink To One Page (this is more noticeable if the document contains many pages)
• Inserting page numbers
• Inserting an index
• Updating the index
• Inserting a table of contents
• Updating the table of contents
• Exporting or saving to a foreign format
• Using the Goto command to go to a particular section

MORE INFORMATION

For additional information, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

   ARTICLE-ID: Q78322
   TITLE     : How to Toggle Background Repagination in Word

   ARTICLE-ID: Q120106
   TITLE     : Background Repagination Can't Be Turned Off in Word

Keywords          : winword ntword macword word7 
Version           : MACINTOSH:6.0,6.0.1,6.0.1a; WINDOWS:6.0,6.0a,6.0c,7.0,7.0a; winnt:6.0
Platform          : MACINTOSH WINDOWS winnt
Issue type        : kbinfo

Last Reviewed: April 3, 1999