Re: section breaks causing multiple pdfs

Actually, no, it isn't...

Look up the StyleRef field in the Word Help.

Use a particular style for the paragraph you want to appear in the header.
The StyleRef field will copy the text of the latest paragraph of that style
into the current header: you can thus use only one section break for a whole
book.

Regrettably, depending on how lucky you get, Acrobat may see that as a
"change" and throw a new job anyway.

That's what it's doing, by the way: it's interpreting a call for "new paper"
as a call for a "new job". It doesn't commit that "particular" crime on the
PC...

A section break is not a single character in Word. It's not *even* a
character. It's a Property Container; a "bucket" of settings and
measurements (potentially, several hundred of them). One of the
specifications is whether to start a new page, another determines whether to
use different paper stock, and a third determines whether to begin a new
print job. Acrobat misinterprets that last one on the Mac.

Cheers


On 26/6/06 11:22 AM, in article
1151284959.612399.303670@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "nsmcc"
<nora.mccauley@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

OP here. Thank you all for your time. I'm glad to have provided you a
forum for good-natured, intellectual ribbing. I've been hitting the
bottle myself this week, mourning over my poor broken document.
On the topic at hand: in the past I have used page breaks with no
issue. Thus adding extra blank paragraphs would not be necessary.
This was my first foray into section breaks, because I wanted to have
different headers and this appears to be the only way to do this in
Word.
Ah well. I guess I'll be downloading some free stitch-ware.
Thank you to all who ventured into the Adobe user group to look around
there for more info--I really appreciate it, even though the net result
seems to be inconclusive.
Best regards,
Nora


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