Start Section on Right-Hand Side of Book

[Karen]

I have a doc from 2003 that's 80 pages, many sections, mirror margins. The
header/footer is set for different for odd/even pages. I want the first page
of each section to begin on the right-hand side of the book.

My reference book says to set the section breaks at "Odd Page" , which is
"useful when you want to make sure that each new chapter starts on the right
side of a two-sided spread", which I've done. However, in viewing in print
preview is doesn't do that. In some sections it inserts a blank page to allow
the right-hand section start and in others it doesn't.

Also, the header/footer changes and some breaks revert back to "Even Page"
and my header/footer info changes. I've set the header/footer to "Not Same as
Previous" and it keeps changing it back.

I'm desperate ... thank you!!!

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

It will start the new chapter on the right hand page when you actually print
the document.

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Hope this helps.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com

 

[Karen]

Thanks so much, Doug ... so am I understanding that what you see in Print
Preview is really not the way the doc prints?

Also, do you know about the header/footer question? I can't figure out why
when I change to not the same as previous it keeps putting it back on some of
the sections?

Then my thought was, can you really have section odd or even AND odd/even
headers set on the same doc? Does one counter act the other? Reaching deep,
but this is quite a quandry for me!!

 

[Stefan Blom]

Hmm, *Print Preview* should correctly display "filler" pages, although Print
Layout view doesn't.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Print Preview will not display the blank pages unless you have either
"Different odd and even" or "Mirror margins" enabled, and it appears that
Karen has both enabled, so Print Preview should show facing pages correctly
(Print Layout view does not).

Also, to answer Karen's question elsewhere in the thread, "Different odd and
even" is all or nothing; it can't be set section by section (as "Different
first page" can). Moreover, each header is linked to (or unlinked from) the
corresponding header in the previous section; so the Odd Page Header is
linked to the Odd Page Header in the previous section, and the Even Page
Headers are unrelated, as are both the footers. All of these can be linked
or unlinked independently of each other (more at
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/HeaderFooter.htm).

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Stefan Blom]

Print Preview will not display the blank pages unless you have either

"Different odd and even" or "Mirror margins" enabled, and it appears that
Karen has both enabled, so Print Preview should show facing pages
correctly (Print Layout view does not).

Exactly, since Karen stated that she made use of both options, she should be
seeing the filler pages/blank pages in Print Preview. My point was that this
wasn't made 100% clear from Doug's answer.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

Print Preview will not display the blank pages unless you have either
"Different odd and even" or "Mirror margins" enabled, and it appears that
Karen has both enabled, so Print Preview should show facing pages
correctly (Print Layout view does not).

Also, to answer Karen's question elsewhere in the thread, "Different odd
and even" is all or nothing; it can't be set section by section (as
"Different first page" can). Moreover, each header is linked to (or
unlinked from) the corresponding header in the previous section; so the
Odd Page Header is linked to the Odd Page Header in the previous section,
and the Even Page Headers are unrelated, as are both the footers. All of
these can be linked or unlinked independently of each other (more at
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/HeaderFooter.htm).

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

And the fact that she *isn't* seeing them suggests that something else is
going on.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Stefan Blom]

True.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

And the fact that she *isn't* seeing them suggests that something else is
going on.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Stefan Blom]

Thanks so much, Doug ... so am I understanding that what you see in Print
Preview is really not the way the doc prints?

Normally, Print Preview should display pages the way they are printed.

Also, do you know about the header/footer question? I can't figure out why
when I change to not the same as previous it keeps putting it back on some
of the sections?

Note that Same as Previous must be turned on/off separately for each type of
header (footer): even, odd, and first page. Also, each time you insert a new
section, Same as Previous will be activated, by default.

Then my thought was, can you really have section odd or even AND odd/even
headers set on the same doc? Does one counter act the other? Reaching
deep, but this is quite a quandry for me!!

The section start setting is separate from header/footer types. Note that
you can look in the Page Setup dialog box to verify that the correct type of
section break is specified for a given section. Sometimes, Word changes the
type (trying to adjust to the printer driver?). Usually, however, you can
get around that by manually setting the type in Page Setup after you've
inserted the section.

For more on headers and footers, see
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/HeaderFooter.htm.