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WD: Actions That Invoke Repagination

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SUMMARY

By default, Microsoft Word updates page breaks whenever you pause while typing or editing. This is called background pagination. Background pagination is always turned on in print preview and page layout view, but you can turn it off for other views. Even when background pagination is off, however, certain actions cause Word to repaginate the document. Repagination happens whenever it is important for Word to show page breaks accurately.

The following is a list of actions that cause Word to repaginate the document, even when Background Pagination is disabled:

Switching from normal view to header/footer view
Switching from normal view to page layout view
Switching to print preview
Printing
In print preview, choosing Shrink To One Page (this is more noticeable if the document contains many pages)
Inserting page numbers
Inserting an index
Updating the index
Inserting a table of contents
Updating the table of contents
Exporting or saving to a foreign format
Using the Goto command to go to a particular section

MORE INFORMATION

For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

120106

(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/120106/EN-US/ )

Background Repagination Can't Be Turned Off in Word

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Article ID: 119943 - Last Review: January 19, 2007 - Revision: 2.1

APPLIES TO

Microsoft Word 6.0 Standard Edition
Microsoft Word 6.0a
Microsoft Word 6.0c
Microsoft Word 95 Standard Edition
Microsoft Word 95a
Microsoft Word 6.0 for Macintosh
Microsoft Word 6.01 for Macintosh
Microsoft Word 6.01 for Macintosh
Microsoft Word 6.0 Standard Edition
Microsoft Word 97 Standard Edition
Microsoft Word 98 for Macintosh

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