odd page section breaks

[Bill Mitchell]

I've got a problem trying to get my odd page section breaks to fall into
line.
When I insert the break after the last line of a section Word shows the
first line of the next section as being on an odd page, but when I print a
section I get a blank unnumbered page as page 1 and the text with an odd
page number starts on the second page.
i.e. Sec 28 with odd page section ends on page 237 Sec 29 starts on page
239, when I print Sec 29 the first page out is blank & the second is page
239.

The problem doesn't seem to occur in the areas where the odd page section
break has been inserted into an even numbered page.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Make sure you don't have a page break in addition to the section break (even
in the form of a paragraph formatted "Page break before").

 

[Bill Mitchell]

Hi Suzanne,
I just checked that. All of the sections begin with a certain style and they
each end with a certain style. I checked both and cleared out everything
having to do with pages, but I still have the same problem.
The only thing I didn't mention is that I have a TC filed inserted at the
very beginning of each section.
It looks like Word is making the hidden "even" page the first page of the
new section rather than the last page of the old section.

Bill

Make sure you don't have a page break in addition to the section break (even
in the form of a paragraph formatted "Page break before").

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I have seen this phenomenon before, in a case where a user was trying to
restart numbering in a section and the first page kept being page 2 because
Word was counting the blank even page as the first page of the section. I
suspect this may be a known bug, but I don't find anything about it in the
KB (there are articles about improper duplexing when the actual page
numbering doesn't agree with the assigned numbers (that is, if you've
started with page 2, but Word knows the first page is 1 and therefore
considers it an odd page).

What may help, if you haven't already done it, is to enable both "Mirror
margins" and "Different odd and even" headers and footers. This will confirm
to Word that you are duplexing and may alleviate the situation, though I
don't guarantee anything.

Hi Suzanne,
I just checked that. All of the sections begin with a certain style and they
each end with a certain style. I checked both and cleared out everything
having to do with pages, but I still have the same problem.
The only thing I didn't mention is that I have a TC filed inserted at the
very beginning of each section.
It looks like Word is making the hidden "even" page the first page of the
new section rather than the last page of the old section.

Bill

Make sure you don't have a page break in addition to the section break (even
in the form of a paragraph formatted "Page break before").

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Stefan Blom]

Apparently, if you don't specify "Mirror margins" or "Different odd
and even" (or both) Word uses the *page number* to determine whether
it needs to insert a filler page or not.

 

[Bill Mitchell]

Thanks Suzanne,
I've already done all of that. I suppose I'll just have to insert a page
break when the section ends on an odd page and make sure my sections end on
an even page

Bill

 

[Bill Mitchell]

Hi Stefan,
I've had mirror & different checked off since I began the manual. I've reset
the mirror margins, but I don't want to reset the odd & even unless I
absolutely have to.

Bill