Section & Chapter break problem

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Woody44
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Section & Chapter break problem

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I have a master document (template) for a monthly newsletter that was created in Microsoft Word 2016. The format calls for article headlines to span the full (margin) width of the pages, but the body text of each article occupies two columns. In Word, this is accomplished by using a continuous section break (Insert > Break > Section > Continuous) to allow changing from a single column to two columns on the same page.

When the same document is opened in TextMaker 2026, the <Section Break (Continuous)> tag is converted to a Chapter break tag and the two columns of body text are moved to the top of the following page. I attempted to correct for this by replacing the Chapter break with a Section break, and it did not resolve the problem.

Please fix it. Formatting consistency with Microsoft Word documents is essential.

Screen shots attached.
Section_Break_Word.jpg
Section_Break_TextMaker.jpg
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SuperTech
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Re: Section & Chapter break problem

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Thank you for your report. To check how the continuous section break is converted, I need the Word document in which this happens.

Please attach the DOCX file here and tell me on which page the break is located, and whether it changes when you open the file or only after saving it in TextMaker.

Please also attach a system information file: click the File tab, then the "?" symbol at the top right, choose About, and click Write system info.

If the document is confidential, you can send it to forum[at]softmaker.com instead; please include a link to this post in your e-mail.
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