Footers jumping

Question

I am probably close to a footer nervous breakdown.

When I click in a footer that I want to be different to a preceding one, it keeps jumping back 6 pages. This also happens on some of the following pages. As soon as I click in the footer to try and change the text, it jumps back to a particular page footer (Just incidentally page 25). Link to previous is NOT checked. There is a correct page break on the preceding page.

Answer 1

Footers are tied to Sections, not pages (other than the First Page Header or Footer, which is tied to the first page of a Section.

Page 25 may be the start of a Section in your document.

Answer 2

No, they are all (next) page breaks.

:-(

Answer 3

I imagine that some of those Section Breaks may be Continuous Section Breaks, and that being the case, it can be difficult to access the required footer of the document.

Answer 4

There is a section break on page 25, but there is also a section break on pages 29, 30, and 31, which is the page before the page I wanted to have a different footer!

Is there anything else, other than section breaks, that delineate what is a 'section' of a document?

Answer 5

OK, I may have finally (trial and error) fixed it by going much further down the document and unchecking 'link to previous' on pages after the ones I wanted to change then working backwards, editing the last of the series of pages I wanted to fix, then relinking the section of pages which have the same wording!