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WD: Background Repagination Can't Be Turned Off

Article ID: 120106

Article Last Modified on 8/16/2005

Microsoft Word 6.0 Standard Edition
Microsoft Word 6.0a
Microsoft Word 6.0c
Microsoft Word 95 Standard Edition
Microsoft Word 6.0 for Macintosh
Microsoft Word 6.01 for Macintosh
Microsoft Word 6.01 for Macintosh
Microsoft Word 6.0 Standard Edition
Microsoft Word 98 for Macintosh

This article was previously published under Q120106

SYMPTOMS

The Background Repagination option is selected and is unavailable (dimmed) for you to clear (turn off).

To locate this option, on the Tools menu, click Options (or click Preferences in Word 98 Macintosh Edition), and select the General tab.

CAUSE

This behavior occurs because you are viewing the current document in page layout view. By design, page layout view requires that Background Repagination be turned on, because Word must show the page breaks correctly.

RESOLUTION

To turn off Background Repagination, change the document view to normal, outline, or master document view.

MORE INFORMATION

Repagination in Word cannot be totally turned off. This is because Word has to repaginate the document in page layout and print preview in order to correctly display the document.

For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

119943 WD: Actions that Invoke Repagination

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