Advanced Microsoft® Office Documents 2007 Edition Inside Out

What’s New For Section Formatting in Word 2007

The essentials of section formatting are unchanged from earlier versions of Microsoft Word. You still insert a section break wherever you need to change page layout formatting for just part of the document. Section breaks still store formatting for the section that precedes the break, and the types of formatting stored in a section break (detailed in the next part of this chapter) are the same as in recent versions.

The primary changes for section formatting, like many features in the 2007 Microsoft Office release, are the methods by which you can access features as well as new options for some features. In the case of section formatting, these changes are particularly significant with the addition ...