I am trying to make a small catalog with Word. When I have filled up a page with text boxes and pictures, I Insert a Page Break, which gives me a new page to work on.
I am on page three, but I want to start page 4.I do the same thing, but it produces the new blank page between pages 2 and 3. No matter where I click on page 3, either the option for Break is greyed out, or it opens the new page between pages 2 and 3.
If I go to page one, it opens the new page BEFORE page 1.
How do I get it to open a new page AFTER the page I am on?
There could also be some issues with how you’ve placed your objects, which can be subject to moving around if you haven’t positioned them correctly. That is, your page may have gone into the right place but the objects might have shifted in the process.
You can also get a cleaner idea of where the breaks are going if you look at Normal View (I assume you are looking at Print Layout View). You might also want to turn on viewing paragraph marks so you can see any stray line breaks.
If none of these excellent specific suggestions work, you can always try closing Word and restarting it, and/or a warm boot (restarting Windows) or a cold boot (powering down and starting up again).
Another general troubleshooting tip, courtesy of the Word-PC list (an excellent Word resource, by the way), is to “maggie” a misbehaving document: with hidden characters showing, copy everything EXCEPT the last paragraph mark and paste it into a new document. A magical fix that works a lot of the time, if you can surface from your Word-induced panic long enough to remember to try it. I know of a lot of people whose bacon it’s saved, including mine.