WD: Actions That Invoke Repagination

SUMMARY

By default, Microsoft Word updates page breaks whenever you pause while typing or editing. This is called background pagination. Background pagination is always turned on in print preview and page layout view, but you can turn it off for other views. Even when background pagination is off, however, certain actions cause Word to repaginate the document. Repagination happens whenever it is important for Word to show page breaks accurately.

The following is a list of actions that cause Word to repaginate the document, even when Background Pagination is disabled:

• Switching from normal view to header/footer view
• Switching from normal view to page layout view
• Switching to print preview
• Printing
• In print preview, choosing Shrink To One Page (this is more noticeable if the document contains many pages)
• Inserting page numbers
• Inserting an index
• Updating the index
• Inserting a table of contents
• Updating the table of contents
• Exporting or saving to a foreign format
• Using the Goto command to go to a particular section