Section break oddity

[WJ Shack]

Documents I prepare require that major sections start on odd pages. If it is
necessary to have a blank page inserted to do this, the blank page should be
unnumbered. So before each major section I insert a Section Break (odd
page). Works like a charm, EXCEPT when I want to restart numbering in the
new section. Then although it says Section Break (odd page), it acts like
Section Break (new page).

I can manually work around this by introducing an additional section break
and not printing the page number in that section.

Is there any other approach that will work or is this just another bug to
live with?

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

What version of Word and OS?

To make sure we are all talking about the same thing--what does this mean:

although it says Section Break (odd page), it acts like
Section Break (new page).

I don't understand "acting like Section Break (new page)." What do you
expect and want it to do, and what does it do instead?

 

[WJ Shack]

What version of Word and OS?

To make sure we are all talking about the same thing--what does this mean:

I don't understand "acting like Section Break (new page)." What do you
expect and want it to do, and what does it do instead?

Word 11 and OS 10.4.5

Section Break (odd page) starts a section on a new page, but should insert a
blank page, if necessary, to have the new page be an odd numbered page.
Section Break (new page) just starts a section on a new page. Section Break
(even page) starts a section on a new page, but should insert a blank page,
if necessary, to have the new page be an even numbered page.

Section Break (odd page) works as it is supposed to as long as you do not
restart the page numbering in the new section, i.e., it inserts a blank page
if necessary to make sure the new page is an odd numbered page. If the page
numbering is restarted in the new section, no blank page will be inserted,
and the new section will start on either an odd or an even numbered page
even though it is supposed to start on an odd numbered page.