Guide

Why is this here?

Shows which page a block is on, what moved, divided or cut it off, and the one change that would put it back — checked before it is offered.

What it is

Select a block in the page body and open Page position → Why is this here? in the side panel. It answers three questions about the block you are looking at:

Where it is — "On page 1", "Moved to page 2", "Split across pages 1–2", "Runs past the bottom of page 3", "Runs past its region", "Anchored to page 1", or "Not printed".
Why — the one rule that decided, named in the words the editor uses for it.
Which block owns that rule — often not the block you selected. A paragraph moves because the Stack it is in is set to move as one piece; Select the Stack takes you straight to it.

The answer comes from the same layout that draws the canvas and prints the PDF and Word file. It is not a separate guess, so it always describes the document you are looking at, with the sample data you have selected.

The rules it can name

A page break comes before the block.
A block that never splits (a picture, a code, a shape, a line) does not fit in the space left.
Stack set to Keep together — a Stack set to move as one piece keeps everything in it together.
Keep with next — a block set to stay with the one after it moves to wherever that one starts. This is named wherever the block sits: in the page body, in a Stack, in a Row column or in a ruled form's region.
Start criteria — at least this many lines, rows or items must fit before a block may start on a page (2 unless you changed it under Page split). A paragraph with fewer lines than that is kept together, so it starts where all of it fits.
Merged table rows — rows joined by a merged cell always stay on one page together.
Repeater records — a record that does not fit in the space left, and cannot be divided, moves to the next page. The records after it on that page are there because the Repeater continues.
Ruled form lines — a ruled form divides only at a full-width drawn line.
Fixed ruled-form regions — a region set to Keep size, or a ruled form whose height is Fixed, does not grow; blocks that do not fit inside it are not printed, and a single block too tall for it runs past its lines.
Long content — the block is longer than the space left, so it continues on the next page.
Anchored blocks — a block anchored to a position on the page never moves with the content around it. So when the content that flows reaches one — a table your data makes long enough, say — the two print in the same place. What counts is what actually prints: a short heading whose words stop before a logo beside it is fine, even though its block runs the width of the page; a line of text, a picture, a shape, or a table's words, shading or rules running under the logo is not — the empty part of a table cell is empty. The editor says so: the issues list in the toolbar names the anchored block, Check scenarios lists it for each scenario whose data makes the content reach it, and a generated document reports anchored-over-content. The document still prints as you designed it; to fix it, move the block, or let it flow with the content (a block that belongs at the end of the document usually should), or put it in a header or footer if it belongs on every page.

Fixing it

When a setting is the cause, the panel offers the change that removes it — for example Let the Stack split between its blocks, Turn off Keep with next on this block, Allow this block to start with 1 line, Let the region grow to fit or Let the ruled form grow to fit. Each one shows After: with the page result it produces.

A change is only offered after the editor has tried it on a copy of your document and seen that the rule no longer applies and that this block's position actually changes. If allowing one line would still not fit, or a region set to grow sits inside a ruled form whose height is fixed, no button is shown — nothing is promised that the layout would ignore.

Every change is one ordinary edit: press Undo next to "Applied", or use Undo in the toolbar.

Some causes have no one-click change, because the only fix would rewrite your design: merged table cells, a ruled form without a drawn line where the page ends, a picture taller than the space left, or a page break you placed on purpose. The panel still names the cause and lets you select the block that owns it.

Split passages and repeated records

Clicking any part of a split passage selects the whole passage, and clicking a later record of a Repeater selects the Repeater (only the first record is the design you edit). So the answer starts with the whole: which pages it spans and why it divided. Under On later pages it then answers for each later part on its own:

Each part of a split passage — "Part on page 3", with the reason the break before it fell where it did. That is usually "longer than the space left on page 2", but it can be a different rule from the first break: rows joined by a merged cell, or a heading set to Keep with next that took the break back with it.
The record that starts each later page of a Repeater — "Record 6 moved to page 2", with why that record did not fit where the page ended. A record is never explained by another record's reason.

Selecting a block in the first record explains that record, and lists the same block in the record that starts each later page. When a part's reason belongs to another block, Select the … next to it takes you there. A long document lists the first eight later parts and says how many more there are.

Limits

Header and footer content is not paginated, so the section only appears for blocks in the page body.
The reasons a text, list or formatted-text block declines to divide are not named individually yet. The panel says the block has no place to split there.
Changes are offered for the block you selected, not for a later part. Select the block a part names to see its own changes.
A Repeater inside another Repeater's records is explained as a whole, not record by record.
When a region is set to Keep size and its ruled form's height is Fixed, both must change; the panel names the region's setting but offers no one-click change for the pair.

Related walkthrough

Long content and page breaks shows the tools this panel names — Keep with next, page breaks, Stacks set to Keep together and tables that carry their header — on one worked document.

If something looks wrong

The panel says "Not printed". The block's rule is false for the data on screen, or a section that contains it is hidden. The Outline tab says which.
The panel offers no button. The change would not move this block, or would rewrite your design (a page break you placed, merged table cells, a picture taller than the page). The cause is still named, and you can select the block that owns it.
A heading is alone at the foot of a page. Switch Keep with next on for that heading.
The page looks different in Word. The panel describes how Ristmark lays out the PDF and web page. A Word file is re-flowed by Word and may break differently.