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Tom - 30 Jan 2006 17:00 GMT

Every so often I will edit a document which I can do everything except delete
page breaks or section breaks. what am I doing wrong. I have tried plcing
the cursor before the break and pressing delete as well as highlighting it
and pressing delete.
Thanks for any help

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Cindy M -WordMVP- - 31 Jan 2006 16:05 GMT

Hi =?Utf-8?B?VG9t?=,

> Every so often I will edit a document which I can do everything except delete
> page breaks or section breaks. what am I doing wrong. I have tried plcing
> the cursor before the break and pressing delete as well as highlighting it
> and pressing delete.

What else is in the document, besides "just text"? Sometimes, a graphical object
or a table might be associated with an adjacent paragraph, which could have the
effect of "protecting" the section or page break as well.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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Tom - 31 Jan 2006 16:25 GMT

The document has tables and graphics, which can be modified and deleted. The
documents are completely normal with the exception of deleting page/section
breaks and I can't turn off track changes.

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>
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Cindy M -WordMVP- - 31 Jan 2006 16:51 GMT

Hi =?Utf-8?B?VG9t?=,

> The document has tables and graphics, which can be modified and deleted. The
> documents are completely normal with the exception of deleting page/section
> breaks and I can't turn off track changes.
>

Version of Word?

It sounds as if the document structures have been damaged. You might try copying
everything EXCEPT the section breaks and the last paragraph mark to a new document,
recreating the sections as you go.

If this is happening to you often, I'd rename Normal.dot to NormalOLD.dot before
recreating the document, so that you know you're starting "with a clean slate".

> > > Every so often I will edit a document which I can do everything except delete
> > > page breaks or section breaks. what am I doing wrong. I have tried plcing
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> > or a table might be associated with an adjacent paragraph, which could have the
> > effect of "protecting" the section or page break as well.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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Tom - 31 Jan 2006 17:51 GMT

Thanks Cindy,

I did a select all, copy and pasted into a new document and everything seems
fine...only some font changes, but I can handle that.

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