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My word document is skipping an entire page and going to the next page. It's skipping page number 10 and going straight to page number 11
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Can you see the tenth page if you look at the print preview at File > Print?
Word's Print Layout view will omit pages that are intentionally blank, such as an even page added by Word to force the text after a section break to start on an odd page number.
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I was getting a blank page online that did not appear to come from paragraph markers or page breaks. It resolved when I toggled View - "Separate Pages" off and on.
Joseph Lawrence, since you are using a different version of Word, please repost this as a new Question. Use the Ask a question button at the top of the Q&A page. Good luck.
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Jay: You are exactly correct! Ay-yi-yi! . . . Here I copied in a bunch of content from another source onto a paragraph space that had been left by a subhead I had moved out of the way by simply typing <ENTER> . . . and I had configured the subhead with the Keep With Next paragraph characteristic. . . .
Whew boy! So glad you thought of it!
THANK YOU! I'm sorry I don't know how to mark your answer as "Accepted." You were spot on!
I'm glad you got it sorted.
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My question is ALMOST the same as Alexa's . Except it's two-thirds of a particular page in a 73-page document. I had already tried the Show / Hide solution and there is absolutely nothing "there" (that I can see) to cause the text to flow around that area. No discoverable text boxes. No anything. . . .
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Right-click the paragraph that is split across the pages in the screenshot, click Paragraph in the menu, and go to the Line and Page Breaks tab of the Paragraph dialog. Are any of the boxes checked for "Keep with next", "Keep lines together", or "Page break before"? The "Keep with next" is most likely to cause the problem, especially if the paragraphs in the list that follows that paragraph also have the same setting.
The situation is also complicated by the default checking of "Widow/Orphan control", which results in the four-line paragraph being split with two lines on each page.
If the split paragraph and all the list paragraphs are marked as "Keep with next", you can unmark all of them, or just the one somewhere in the middle that allows the first part of the list to return to the left page. The latter option, though, could make the big blank reappear if some editing causes the earlier text to get a line or two longer.
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