#Find section breaks in word plus#

As this was scheduled for submission on Thursday I guess that it now looks like that is no longer going to happen. I don't yet know if this created any new issues and the new copy will need to be re-proofed to make sure that it is faithful to the previously proofed original (the text itself had been blessed, it was just the formatting that was messed up). I just tried copying and pasting the entire document (all at once) into a new blank one and doing so seems to have eliminated the spurious section (woo hoo!), but. The document has in fact been 'Save As'ed over and over again as a form of version control - it's not the way I'd have done it but a lot of the technical aspects of this are out of my hands but it didn't seem unreasonable either.ДЄnyway. Much continuing thanks for all the suggestions. Ultimately, copy and paste may be your only choice. You can tell this is going on when an empty document has an unreasonable size because of hidden formatting and edit changes due to how Word handles edits.Д¬orrupt fonts can also cause strange behaviors as Word may misbehave when applying styles or formatting when a bad font is loaded. More often, people get into trouble because they keep re-opening the same document over and over again to 'save as' a new document and this results in a great deal of disused content being perpetuated in successive iterations and can result in wacky behavior when/if the document is corrupted. You can also try attaching a different template than Normal. Sometimes a corrupt template can cause document formatting errors. If it's anything but Normal.dotm then hit the Attach button and apply Normal. Meh.Д«ut you could try going to the Tools menu and selecting 'Templates and Add-Ins' and seeing what template you have selected there. Basically rule out everything but Word before trying to see if Word is the problem. MS has a 'troubleshooting word' knowledgeable article that calls for starting up in safe mode, checking disks, etc. I have added additional section breaks before the unwanted skip and all that happened was that the the section numbers then skipped from 2 to 4, or 5 to7 or whatever.

In fact sometimes only the first character in the document was in section one, the second character on was in section three. I have back-space deleted from a point past the skip and again all that happened was that, after I deleted all the text from that point to the beginning of the document, the break just moved down. I have deleted from the beginning of the document past the unwanted section skip and again the unwanted section breaks(s) just moved further down into the text. I have deleted all the text up to where the erroneous section skip is occurring and all that happened was that the unwanted section skip moved further down in the text. Didn't help, same result as manually deleting. I have used find-and-replace to delete all section breaks. Didn't help: the document still skipped from section one to section three at some seemingly random point. I have manually deleted all section breaks.

#Find section breaks in word plus#

What is happening is that no matter what the section before the problem is, the document skips from that number to that number plus two all by itself without any visible or findable section breaks. I have tried everything that I can think of to get rid of it. Help! I am in the process of preparing a document for publication and for reasons that I do not understand the document, which was divided into sections as required, had 'grown' a new section that I cannot see, cannot get rid of, and is making a complete mess of the formatting.