A Keyboard Cmd for Inserting New Pages?

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Hi. Using Word 2003 on Win XP Home

Please excuse this newbie question but I must create
a long (60-80 pages) MS Word 2003 document and
the manual effort (Insert > Break > New Page > Okay)
involved in inserting many new pages in the document is
getting to me.

Don't know how to go about finding a Word command
key to eliminate this drudgery. Please advise. Thank you.
 
If you just want a page break (not a Next Page section break), use
Ctrl+Enter. But it's best to avoid manual page breaks where possible. If you
have a specific heading level that you want always to start a new page,
format it as "Page break before."

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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Thanks, Tony. Word 2003 is so feature-laden
and complicated that I haven't been able to find
a source for all the keyboard command such as
CTL-Enter. Am using the keyboard commands
listed next to pull-down functions but there must
be tons of "dig 'em out" keyboard commands.

Thanks again.
 
Hi, Suzanne.

Thanks for the rapid response. Don't plan to use
sections and section breaks. My newly assigned
document will be complicated enough in its own right
without adding the complexity of section management.
It may seem simple to experts but sections are very
confusing to this newbie.

May I ask why it's best to avoid manual page breaks?
What can go wrong?

I'll experiment with formatting H1 headers with "page
break before." That sounds like a good idea.

Thanks again!
 
Here's what can go wrong with manual page breaks:

Suppose you type a page that's two lines short of being full. For good
measure, let's say it's somewhere in the middle of a 20-page document.
Later -- maybe days later -- you edit the document and make changes in
the first few pages that add three or four lines of text. Then you
print the document and hand it to the guy in Repro to make 50 copies.

When you finally get around to paging through the document, the page
that used to be two lines short has now overflowed to the next page --
which now contains two lines of text and a ton of white space because
the manual page break is still there. Bummer.

There are a couple of ways to prevent this situation. Adding "Page
break before" to major heading level styles is one. Another is to
format certain paragraphs with "Keep together", which is in the same
dialog; that prevents an automatic page break from occurring inside
that paragraph.
 
You can also type "keyboard shortcuts" into Word's Help to get an article
that lists them by category.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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You could be sure if you read the posts of several other responders who
posted before you.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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I just checked and it is ctrl+enter, at least on my keyboard it is. good
luck and hope that helped.
 
There is no question that it is Ctrl+Enter. There is no need for you to
guess or speculate because several previous responders had already given
this correct answer. Please don't post untested speculations, especially
when the correct answer has already been given several times!

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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