Sections, Headers, Formating Problems

Office 2004, latest updates, on a Dual G5 running OS 10.4.4.

I'm not new to Word (bought it with my Mac Plus!), but I am new to
applying different headers to different sections/pages. I'm assisting
my wife in preparing a manuscript for submission to a publisher. The
guidelines call for a header that reads "hername, p. 2" beginning with
page 2 and then numbering following pages consecutively. There is no
header on page 1. Each page is a separate section.

This was confusing, but I learned to do it by reading numerous posts in
this group (thank you,) MS documentation, web sources, et. al.

But there's a problem: once the document has been nicely formated in
this way, if the text is edited in such a way that some text at the
bottom of a page is moved down to the next page it also pushes the
section break downward so that it no longer coincides with the page
break, thus ruining the header formating. I fixed this by manually
cutting and pasting section breaks back into their proper positions.
That was OK on a short document, but it would be undoable on a very
long document. It would be just about as quick to get a bunch of stones
and a hammer and chisel then deliver the manuscript in a dump truck.

Is there a way to have the section breaks locked/tied to the page
breaks so that they stay in place when text moves to the next page?

We noticed after manually replacing the section breaks that formating
errors seem to have been introduced in the document. Hyphens were
misplaced, tabs were missing, etc. Did we do something wrong, or is
there a software bug at work here?

What else don't I know? ;-)

Many thanks!

Davoud
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