Probably not misusing, but inadvertently deleting. Word goes out of its way to include invisible constructs in deletions, in the (IMHO mistaken) belief that it is doing you a favour. I ALWAYS keep codes and whitespace characters displayed in an attempt to stop this happening. Regards, Dave S ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ray Shapp" <ras45@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 4:49 PM Subject: [mso] Re: Isolate 3-Column Formatting (Word2003) > Hi Dave, > > Thanks for the reply. > > <<What you are doing - deleting most of the information, but not all of > it - > is almost certainly the easiest way of keeping control.>> > > I adopted this technique as a "work-around". It is effective, but I > thought I > might have been misusing the section break between the ne-column pages and > the > three-column page. The three linked text boxes is a viable alternative. > Thanks > for mentioning that. > > Ray Shapp > > > ************************************************************* > You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or > MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > To Unsubscribe from this group, visit the group's homepage and use the > dropdown menu at the top. This will allow you to unsubscribe your email > address or change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). > //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso > > To be able to share files with the group, you must join our Yahoo sister > group. This group will not allow for posting of emails, but will allow > you to join and share problem files, templates, etc.: > http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MicrosoftOffice . This group is for > FILE SHARING ONLY. > > If you are using Outlook and you see a lot of unnecessary code in your > email messages, read these instructions that explain why and how to fix > it: > http://personal-computer-tutor.com/abc3/v28/greg28.htm > ************************************************************* ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu at the top. This will allow you to unsubscribe your email address or change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to share files with the group, you must join our Yahoo sister group. This group will not allow for posting of emails, but will allow you to join and share problem files, templates, etc.: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MicrosoftOffice . This group is for FILE SHARING ONLY. If you are using Outlook and you see a lot of unnecessary code in your email messages, read these instructions that explain why and how to fix it: http://personal-computer-tutor.com/abc3/v28/greg28.htm *************************************************************