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I am using Word on the Mac to transcribe an historic document. In the document manuscript, the author drew a vertical line through a paragraph to strike it, so in Word, I have used a line shape, drawn over the paragraph text, to imitate the effect. This works fine when the paragraph is contained on a single page, however, when the paragraph overflows onto another page, the lower part of the shape disappears on the overflow page.
I've been trying to figure out how to make the line shape visible when the paragraph spans a page boundary, but can't figure it out. Do you know whether this is possible, and if so, how? (I've tried in Word 2011 and 2016 for Mac, but have the same problem in both versions.)
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It cannot be done. - objects cannot span a page break. There are no pages in the structure of a Word document. The program is designed to present content on "sheets of paper" because that's what users want to see. Text flows across page boundaries, but graphic elements cannot.