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believeit17
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 Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2012 12:35 pm Post subject: Saving .doc files creates page breaks in document? |
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So I just noticed this started happening within the last week or two. As part of my job I get a bunch of transcriptions sent to me as .doc files. These files have no page breaks in them whatsoever. I take them, format the headers to match company requirements, then re-save the file (still as .doc). However, I am noticing now that my newly saved files have a blue line (what I'm assuming is a normal page break) around the end of the first page and a lot of the time makes it so only one sentence is on the second page of the document.
I'm not losing any text, but it's really wasting a lot of paper when I print these out and I can't figure out a way to get rid of them! I have tried manually removing them myself, but as soon as I save the document again it puts the break in the same spot. I've been doing this exact process with these files for the last two years and have never had a problem come up like this.
I can save the files as .odt and they don't have the page breaks, but I need them to be .doc files because they are sent out to dozens of people and need to be in a format that won't freak them all out haha. I've even tried saving these .odt files as .doc files again and the page break is there again!
Anyone have any thoughts? |
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jrkrideau
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| Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 4:58 am Post subject: Re: Saving .doc files creates page breaks in document? |
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| believeit17 wrote: | So I just noticed this started happening within the last week or two. As part of my job I get a bunch of transcriptions sent to me as .doc files. These files have no page breaks in them whatsoever. I take them, format the headers to match company requirements, then re-save the file (still as .doc). However, I am noticing now that my newly saved files have a blue line (what I'm assuming is a normal page break) around the end of the first page and a lot of the time makes it so only one sentence is on the second page of the document.
I'm not losing any text, but it's really wasting a lot of paper when I print these out and I can't figure out a way to get rid of them! I have tried manually removing them myself, but as soon as I save the document again it puts the break in the same spot. I've been doing this exact process with these files for the last two years and have never had a problem come up like this.
I can save the files as .odt and they don't have the page breaks, but I need them to be .doc files because they are sent out to dozens of people and need to be in a format that won't freak them all out haha. I've even tried saving these .odt files as .doc files again and the page break is there again!
Anyone have any thoughts? |
At a quick guess your OOo template is starting with the Style First Page, and then going to Default.
If this is what is happening I'd suggest creating a new default template. If for some reason, Word is inserting a Page Style change [1] you may have to reformat the first page in each new file.
1. Actually I don't think Word has page styles but whatever it uses for the same effect.
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believeit17
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| I've made new default templates and still no luck. I've also tried messing around with the styles but I'm still getting the same results. Any other ideas? |
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