MS Word - Text jumps to next page

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This tutorial discusses what causes text to jump to the next page when there is no page break. Sometimes you'll see little black squares in MS Word because pagination formatting of keep with next, keep lines together, or page break before are turned on. We show you how to turn that off and how it might get turned on accidentally.
While less common than the keep with next formatting, there are a few other settings that can also cause text to jump to the next page and we discuss those after covering the most common cause.
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[@noleenswork2362]

I am an academic and research supervisor. I spend my life reading and editing often poorly presented documents which have been through the mangle a few times before I finally have to rescue them. These blank spaces which do not show in show-hide because someone fell asleep on the enter key have been my perennial nightmare. Thank you Laura! Really appreciated.

[@lunajk5649]

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[@lunajk5649]

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[@ianbenjiman]

I think what you all came for was 6:55 I did, and it was very helpful. Don't know how many times I've run into this issue and it's just a simple fix. Thank you Laura, liked and favorited.

[@kareemmargaretabiade990]

I have been searching for some time now on how to correct the page break on my CV. Watching this now, I was able to fix it. now I can go ahead with my applications.! You need to see the way I screamed when I was able to get this fixed right now! I clicked on the 'subscribe' button straight away. Thank you so much

[@moniquemontague9609]

I worked on this problem for 2 days...and then I came to your video...within minutes my document was fixed! Thank you!!!

[@seandhont88]

Oh my goodness I was so close to throwing my computer across the room, you saved me around 4 min mark thank you!!!!

[@rjhammond00]

Yep. 2 mins in and you've saved me HOURS of frustration!!! Thanks a lot!

[@rolandwagner1209]

2 minutes into the video and my formatting issues are resolved that you so much!

[@mpwheatley]

Laura, I love you. You have taught me how to fix a problem which has been driving me crazy for years. Thank you!

[@keithgary6258]

You're my hero! I'm writing a scientific conference paper and have been battling this issue for a solid day.

[@drallisimo34]

Very useful and professionally made tut! Congrats!!!

[@7890uiopjkl]

You just made my writing time much more easy and enjoyable. Been dealing with this problem for a while and not finding the right answers to it. Thank you, thank you!

[@fartwrangler]

Insanely more complicated than it needs to be. The problem with MS-WORD is that, once again, Microsoft thinks they know what you want better than YOU know what you want. I have wasted HOURS trying to turn OFF MS defaults that never should have been defaults in the first place. Nothing more frustrating that working on a document for hours -- with a looming deadline -- and all of a sudden WORD decides you need to be in "outline" mode, or that your text box a the bottom of the page suddenly needs to be anchored to something (you don't know WHAT) in the middle of the next page. I finally went back to Corel WordPerfect. WordPerfect starts with everything turned OFF, and then YOU choose what you want turned on by default.

[@arnarfreyrkristinsson8650]

Thank you! I was dealing with this for around half an hour at least before I watched the video! Solved in 4 minutes.

[@jehangir8utube]

Thank you so much i have wasted lot of time on text jumping to the next page but you made my day

[@Sweetreturns217]

You helped me to finish editing a work I had to finish today. Thank you so much!!!!

[@Shogoeu]

Solved my problem - this needs to rank higher on search engines instead of some useless videos that show how to "press delete" and shift select.

[@TownsendTek]

Glad it helped! Do you remember what key words you were searching for when trying to solve your problem? It might help if I add them to the description, I know this is a really common issue but don't know what words people would use to search for an answer.

[@Zizi14]

Ok, I know word, but this was driving me CRAZY! I checked everything.. well, almost everything :D Thanks so much!

[@muzamilhussain8620]

The issue was troubling me for a while. Finally the solution. Thanks

[@tomwinchestertonfieldville8342]

Thank you so much, I never would've figured this out and couldn't hand in my assignment until I did.

[@calebfast8088]

Wow, thank you so much! It would have taken me ages to find that Line and Page Break thing. Thank you!

[@davidbaxter2115]

Thank you so much its sorted something that has given me a headache for ages

[@JoshuaRegoTheGreat]

This worked for me after watching the first 2 mins. Thank you so very much

[@amylynne777]

Thank you!! I’ve been trying to figure this out for ages. Only tutorial that helped!!

[@gwenneylon1058]

Thank you so much! Your first suggestion worked a treat. I thought I was a bit of a dab hand at Word, but this just goes to show that even a dinosaur can learn new tricks. Really appreciate it.

[@mixedmedia_artist]

thank you so much, i was having such a hard time with an old document for years, it kept doing that exact thing. One look at your video and its fixed :)

[@indieshack4476]

Wow, thank you Laura! This saved me a ton of time

[@WriteMyHeartOut]

Awesome video.. took 2 min to watch this and I'm done with my problem! Thanks..

[@GetZennified]

This was so very helpful for this legal secretary!

[@denzilfryer5267]

I've encountered this problem several times and I can finally deal with it now. Thank you for your great video!

[@bettychebitok4593]

Still I can't are you able to help me kindly

[@leahwilliams3163]

Your a freaking genius!!!!! Thank you! I've been going nuts trhing to figure out how to fix this!!!

[@Ronyn76]

Thankyou! This saved me a lot of grief.

[@MrK1sherwani]

Wow this this tutorial is a great tool you saved my day in the first 2 min THANK YOU!!!

[@michellebaglow3558]

Just could not figure this out, thank you so much!

[@oregonstoriesforesllearner3452]

Thank you so much! Super helpful. Very good for my blood pressure

[@wac74]

Laura, thank you so much, have had much trouble with this issue...:) you are a blessing

[@jamjudspublishers]

Sister, you are a life saver, thank you

[@yehiamanawi7715]

Thanks a lot Laura ... you're a hero

[@lucyfrances5862]

Thank you!!! Saved me so much time and stress!

[@MrMole23]

Thank you so so so much! MS Word has frustrated me for so long.

[@amandanield5380]

omg thank you so much! this has been such a stress saver for me!!!

[@AdrianaRosalesAuthor]

Thank you so much so helpful super resolved my issues!!

[@TownsendTek]

You are most welcome - Glad it helped!

[@jask320]

Thank you so much!!! You saved my life

[@robertjr555]

thank you very much, this has changed my ms word experience alot

[@pedrovalentin1474]

you gave me the answer to a question i have been searching for a long time.. thank you so much

[@MWebb-zm3cr]

Thank you so much. This was very useful. God bless you.

[@ChroniclesofaRunawayBride]

Thank you for this! It was driving me CRAZY!!

[@ArturBalthazar]

Wow, you put a light on my work, thank you

[@itsmycalamity]

Thank you so much for this! Some of these things were driving me mad. :)

[@HeadsinPaperBags]

Problem solved! thanks!!! and happy new year!

[@jackboyne300]

Thanks, so much! This was driving me crazy!

[@Fhazelj]

Just spent 3 hours trying to fix my 'white space' problem and now flirting with missing my deadline. You saved my life (my problem was that the f*7^#k who created the document had the 'centre' option selected on the Layout Tab instead of 'Top'. Thank you - may you be blessed with many children.

[@TownsendTek]

So glad you had the patience to watch to that point. That issue is REALLY rare. In fact, I think I only remembered it because I was so emotionally scarred from figuring it out the couple times it happened. I mean... WHY would vertical text alignment be changed? (Answer - maybe for a title page where you want the text centered top to bottom, but if someone knows enough to do that, you'd think they'd also know to keep it in its own section.)

[@ke722nzo8]

How do you get the pages back under each other (like the begin)in stead of next to each other(like the end)

[@lauratownsend6850]

Ke722nzo click The view tab, then click “one page”. That will keep them from going side-by-side. You can listen in and out by holding down the control key on the keyboard while you were on the wheel on top of the mouse back-and-forth.

[@smellinflowrs]

Thanks, you just saved hours of my life

[@MrK1sherwani]

Can you please teach us how to connect continue numbering to the head lines or to the sublines? Thanks in advance

[@ThaniesProduction]

Thankyouuuuuu saved my work !!

[@bobbyshabangu]

Thanks, you're a star.

[@ericjin4337]

thanks! this really solves my headache!

[@leeWonnacott]

Thank you, thank you, and another thank you!

[@careermapping5035]

Thank you :-). It was really helpful.

[@dralial-waeli7162]

Thank you so much. It helped me a lot.

[@Amanabouba]

THANK YOU THAT WAS REALLY HELPFUL

[@C99631]

Thank you. Saved me a lot of time and frustration.

[@catherinedonnellyfoundatio5368]

Thanks so much!! it helped!!

[@deltons1000]

Sorted my problem out, thanks!

[@ausriusbernotas8825]

Thank you very much, saved my life

[@mellodymatol3196]

You're a great help.

[@zeetdelhi]

you saved me thank you so much !!

[@rajuahmedbappi8193]

Thanks for the tricks. My problem is solved.

[@erikasenglish7057]

This isn't the problem for mine. All those boxes are unchecked and there are no squares. Mine just acts like there's a page-break there, but there isn't. It wasn't like that this morning, and I just checked the document again, and now the graphics and formatting for the entire document is off... It will stop mid---page (and sometimes mid-sentence) and then continue it on the second page. When I try to backspace to close the gap, it simply acts like the bottom half of the document is unusable.

[@TownsendTek]

Interesting. If you put your insertion point at the top of the page and press enter a few times does the text get pushed down the page, or jump to the next page at the halfway mark? If it jumps to the next page, It could be your bottom margin is super big, or there's an image of some sort in the footer. If you want me to look at it email a copy to [e-mail].

[@erikasenglish7057]

@@TownsendTek Thanks for getting back to me! I double checked the margins. That didn't seem to be it. The weirdest thing, it seemed to be the pictures. I had pictures embedded into the document, and for some reason, when some of the text moved, the images moved (no longer fitting on the page) and took paragraphs with them to the next page. I couldn't get the text to unlink from the pictures so that I could only move one or the other, but I did find a work-around for it. Very bizarre.

[@user-ls1lu7gu4u]

What if you're doing this on a Mac in Pages???

[@eebcontent]

I have an issue. I made a header and when press enter or try to add text it skips to another page leaving a blank page . And that quick trick doesn't work. All the boxes under widow/orphan control are already unchecked. What do I do?

[@TownsendTek]

Jacob, I don't know based on your description. But if you want to email a copy of the document to me I will take a look at it. My email is laura at lawofficesolution.com

[@captainaryan26]

Is Ms word good for writing a novel ? I mean, it's just so difficult even though I'm seventeen. Like indentation, header footage on odd even pages, etc. can't get them right without spending hours on KZbin. And this tutorial didn't work because all the things are unchecked.

[@faysalrahaman9546]

Thank you for sharing this I have problems like this

[@justiceusa3267]

Very helpful thanks 🙏

[@Chenjiangtao]

great video! Thanks!

[@TheTaiwoIsola]

Thank You! Thank You!! Thank You!!!

[@prudencedantye9297]

Thank you so much!

[@pandukawb]

you are a life saver!

[@komlag]

How did you get the section symbol and pilcrow symbol as actual commands in your ribbon?

[@TownsendTek]

Hi Jeremy, I actually used VBA Computer programming to make that happen. I made the icons myself in a graphics software. BUT, if you go to Insert, Symbol, More Symbols (at bottom) Special Characters (Tab at top) you will see them. You can assign shortcut keys to them and/or auto correct. For shortcut keys, a lot of people use Alt+S and Alt+p. For autocorrect, I use ".p" and ".s". It you yeally want to know exactly how I got those icons on the bar let me know and I'll tell you.

[@komlag]

Yes, I would to know if it's not too complicated. I'm aware of the shortcut keys and autocorrect features but it would be nice to have actual symbols in the ribbon for writing motion briefs and other legal documents considering that they are used so frequently.

[@TownsendTek]

Now that I think about it, it is pretty complicated to explain (I'll put the general steps below). But if you email me directly and tell me which version of MS Word you are using, I can send you a file that has the icons on the Quick Access toolbar, and tell you where to place that file, and then they will just magically be there for you. There may be an easier way to do it, but this is what I did: 1. Created image files of the symbols by typing them into graphics software and making them a certain size. 2. Made macros that insert the symbols. (You can do this by recording a macro of you inserting them.) 3. Modified those macros to work with the Word ribbon. 4. Used an XML editor to write Ribbonx code to create buttons on the ribbon (not the quick access toolbar) for them, and assigned my graphic images to those buttons. 5. All the above is saved in a Word template. You could probably put it in your normal template, but I used a separate template. 6. Saved that template in my Word startup folder so it loads when I open Word. 7. Opened that template, and right clicked each of the buttons I made, and chose "Add to Quick Access Toolbar." That made my macros, with images, appear on the QAT. 8. Saved the template and kept it in my Word startup folder. You could actually make macros and add them to the Quick Access toolbar much more easily. The challenge is getting those images of the symbols to appear. Word has a few prefabricated icons you can assign to your own macros on the Quick Access Toolbar, but the only way I know of to get custom images to appear there is to put them on the ribbon (with the tabs like home and insert) using programming code, and THEN add them to your Quick Access toolbar by right clicking them on the ribbon. If you would be fine if the icons were not the actual symbols, let me know, I'll make a video of how to record the macros and add them to your QAT. You'll just have to pick from Word's default images.

[@komlag]

What's the best email address to contact you? A template would be great. I was able to add the macros but of course like you stated the icons are not of the symbols. This wouldn't bother me, but I've added a couple macros and am having trouble remembering each macro's exact function....it would be easier to actually have the symbols as the macro icons.

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[@paulbouwerinspireyourlife]

Thank you so much, problem solved in seconds

[@mariodeoliveira7418]

Awesome!

[@TownsendTek]

Thank you!

[@ephraimgarcia2420]

OMG thank you so much. I have been editing for hourssssssss and damn that I cannot figure it out.

[@bettychebitok4593]

Kindly somebody help me still I can't doing qualitative data analysis and after I put an extract in my work that problem happens this video didn't help, I have tried for over 5 hours but I can't. Kindly somebody help

[@kamilahwillenberg2509]

THANK YOU SOOO MUCH SAVIOUR!

[@sarahpelter851]

Thank you! very helpful

[@nickzee1637]

Thank you greatly!

[@marivicmavhie3081]

how to cut the words and move a paragraph from the bottom to top

[@aKaCrowley]

thank you for this

[@krishandias972]

Thank you

[@kiouban]

OMG!!! THANK YOU!!!

[@abshah091]

Thanks

[@perugiastudente]

Can you update it for 2024?

[@TownsendTek]

Is there something that is not matching up on your screen? The video is old, but Word hasn't really changed. unless you're using the web, online version of Word. I never use that so I don't know if it's different.

[@perugiastudente]

@@TownsendTek Thank you I dont think it fixed the issue but its fine

[@GGprods-o2x]

you are an angel.

[@PUTHENTHOPE]

Thank you!

[@leif3925]

You rock! Thanks : - )

[@bettychebitok4593]

Still I can't do it coz of page break. What do I need. Crying

[@factualmyth5861]

Thanks so much!

[@PastorMattTricker]

Thank so much, a Lifesaver :)

[@qaithequeen]

Thank you thank you thank you!