MS Office Legal and Corporate- I Cannot Get Rid of a Style On My Page Break

MS Office Legal and Corporate- I Cannot Get Rid of a Style On My Page Break 


Scenario:  This was the question.  A secretary had a page break with a Style attached to it that was named Bold Defined Term.  She wanted to Strip the page break to Normal Style which is what should be associated with a page or section break. She made multiple attempts to strip it to Normal Style with Control Shift N.  

  • The secretary knew the name of the style attached to the page break because she has the “Style Box” loaded on her Quick Access Toolbar. (I will include that article on loading the Style Box at the end of this article).

  • We would rather not have styles attached to a page break because in some cases (not this case), this can find its way into a Table of Contents as a “ghost entry”. Meaning, if your Heading 1 for instance is accidentally applied to a page break or section break then, when you run your TOC, you will get a blank line with nothing but a dotted leader and the page number but NO TEXT.
  • In the current case, the secretary was able to determine that the Style Attached was a “Character Style” because when looking at the Style Palette on the right side of the screen there was a lower case “a” to the right of the style name and NOT a Paragraph Symbol.

  • Since it is a Character Style, I suggested that she use “Control Spacebar” to strip off the Character Style and when she did, the page break immediately reverted to Normal Style.

  • This means that Normal Style was always present on that page break but was obscured by the presence of the character style that was acting as an overlay. Stripping a character style will never affect a paragraph related style in terms of removing attributes built into the style itself.

Article below on loading your style box: Good idea to load your Style Box because it lets you know the name of the style your cursor is resting upon at the time.


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