Adding a blank 2nd page

Question

I am attempting to create a newsletter using Word 2016 from a blank document. However after completing my 1st page when I try to add a second page instead of it appearing below the document becoming page 2 it appears above the document complete with the newsletter title at the top of the page and becoming page 1 while the 1st completed 'headline' page becomes page 2!

I have spent hours with Microsoft Office 2016 for dummies trying to resolve this so my new added blank page appears below the 1st completed page without the headline logo and becomes page 2 so I can carry on composing my Newsletter  but without success.

Please can someone help me with this?

Dave Wright

Answer 1

Does your first page have text boxes? If so, you need to understand that text boxes are not part of the flow of text in the main document layer; they are in the drawing layer and are merely anchored to paragraphs in the document body. You will need to find the (empty?) text paragraph to which the text boxes are anchored, press Enter to create a new empty paragraph below it, and then insert a manual page break (Ctrl+Enter) between the two. Text boxes on page 2 will be anchored to the empty paragraph on that page.

Keep in mind, however, that filling a document with text boxes is working at cross-purposes to Word, which is not page layout software. The easiest way to use Word is to enter text in the main text layer, using text boxes only when you want this main text to wrap around something. You can have multiple columns of ordinary text (alternating with single columns of text or graphics), but the main text flow should be in the document body not in the drawing layer (which is where text boxes reside).

If you want to use text boxes for all your text content, you should be using Publisher or some other page layout application.