Word-- I press enter and dont want the following page to go one line down, but to stay in its place!!?

Question

Lets say I already have a document, now i need to edit it every now and then, adding a line, or deleting a line, every time i do that the order of the following pages gets mixed up!
Recently, i have been told of the Tab option in the paragraph menu, I Set cursor before the first word on the following page and then Menu->Format->Paragraph select tab [Lines and page breaks] and switchOn there:
[Page break before]
But when I do this and go back to the page before(lets say page 1), and press enter, the entire page 2 gets down, becoming page 3, and i have a blank page on page 2...
how can i resolve this, and is there any way i can do it for the entire document(60 pages long) instead of putting the cursor on whenever i should in every page..
thanks in advance!!

Answer 1

Try putting the page breaks at the end of a section instead of at the start. Place your cursor at the end of a page or section, from the Insert menu choose Break - 'Page break' is usually the default so click OK. This may stop the extra blank page you are experiencing but it will not stop the pages re-paginating if you add extra text.

Unfortunately it can not be done automatically.
To speed things up for the 60 pages, when you insert the first page break turn on the Show/hide button and your page break will be visible. Bring your mouse pointer to the extreme left of the page break dots, it will turn to a white arrow. Click and you will have selected the page break. You can copy it and paste it at the bottom of the rest of the pages.

Answer 2

word automatically formats your page. it won't let you have the first line of a new paragraph on a seperate page for instance. i don't know a way around this. it has annoyed me in the past as well.