Advanced Microsoft® Office Documents 2007 Edition Inside Out

Keeping Sections Simple

Rule number one: When you’re working with section breaks, work with formatting marks visible. If you can’t see section breaks, you can’t manage them effectively. To turn on formatting marks, press CTRL+*. (Note that the asterisk on the number keypad does not work for this shortcut.)

When viewing formatting marks, a complete section break looks like the image that follows.

Note that because there are different types of section breaks (discussed later in this section), the break type (such as Next Page, shown in the preceding graphic) might vary, but your section breaks will otherwise look like this.

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