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Random: MS Word help please

Blue Apple Herps

aka Matthew, PhD
This is pretty random, but figure there are a lot of computer savvy people here.

I need some help with MS word (Word 2011 for Mac). I want to insert a page (or maybe a page break?) such that on typing on the preceding page will skip the inserted page and continue to the next page.

e.g.: I have typing on page 2, page 3 is blank or inserted page, and typing continues on page 4. I would like it such that if I add text to page two, it carries over to page 4 and skips page 3. Basically I want an inserted page to float in place in the document regardless of what is done before or after it. Does that make sense?

Is this even possible?
 
Make sure you are in print layout view. Type up your first page, then use the "enter" key to scroll past page 2. Start typing page 3...

There may be a shortcut, but I'm not a Mac guy. The above method takes all of three seconds anyway...

Scott
 
Do you want this page to be left completely blank, or will something be on it? Could you insert it when you are finished with the text portion of the document? The only thing I can think of is if you are leaving it blank, and need it inserted before you are finished with the text, I think you could add an "image" (just a blank white picture, or any picture you can delete when done) and stretch it to fit the page and then do "text wrap" around it, in essence writing around the "picture"/blank page. That's the best I can think of right now.
 
Yes, I'm going to be using the page for an image, but wanted a blank page as a holder until I insert them.

I figured out the solution. Buy Pages - Apple's word processing program. I handles image files beautifully in that once they're set they don't move (if you format it that way). So I have white boxes that take up whole page as page holders, they stay locked on whatever page they are and text flows around them.

Thanks for the responses.
 
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