Added (erroneous) pages when printed?

[Emily]

I am working in Microsoft 2003. The document we are working on is fairly
heavy on the manual page and section breaks. We've been going through
various drafts for the last year or so, but it's only in the past week that
I've experienced the following error:

For some reason, when printed (I can also view them in print preview) extra,
completely blank (in other words, they don't have formatted headers and
footers) appear in the document, especially when printing to PDF. In print
preview, the zoom icon changes to a circle with a slash through it when I
mouse over these pages, which leads me to believe that they are a sign of
corruption in the document. In some instances, I've been able to get rid of
these erroneous pages by tweaking page numbers and section breaks, but there
are points in the document where it does not work. Any suggestions?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

These are the blank pages that Word creates when you have an Odd Page
section break and the previous section ends on an Odd Page. If you didn't
intend to have an Odd Page break, Word may have changed your Next Page break
to Odd Page. You can change it back. With the insertion point in the section
that begins on an odd page, go to the Layout tab of Page Setup and change
the section start type to "New page."