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Old September 26th, 2008, 03:58 AM posted to microsoft.public.word.formatting.longdocs
Suzanne S. Barnhill
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Default printing a single section: problem with unwanted blank page

This actually does happen quite often, I gather. Unfortunately, when you use
an Odd Page break, Word regards the blank even page it inserts as the first
page of the section. Another problem that this causes is an incorrect Y for
Page X of Y fields in sections that restart numbering (the blank page is
counted even though it's not numbered).

Would printing in reverse order help?

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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"Robert M. Franz (RMF)" wrote in message
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Hello Chip

Chip Orange wrote:
We have a document which is over 300 pages in length. It's divided up
into many small Word sections. Many of these begin a new chapter, and so
have a "section break odd page".


*before* it, right?


When we print we duplex this document. We often have a need to update a
single section, and then instruct our users to reprint this section only,
and reinsert it into their copy of the manual.

The problem is that when printing duplex, a section with the section
break odd page, will throw an extra blank page to honor it's "odd page"
designation, and this blank page ends up being on the other side of the
first page of the section.


how exactly are the users printing the individual section(s)? Entering
"s9" (without the apostrophes) in the "Print what" dialog to print section
9 would be my desired approach. If the printer is set to duplex, and the
page is indeed an odd page (what does the PAGE field show on this page),
then it's certainly not what should happen that the printer spits out an
empty page on the back of the starting page.

Could you print a section into, say, a PDF and see whether

a) the PDF has a blank page somwhere, or
b) it prints in the same way as the DOC file?

I'm not aware of any build-in "anomaly" in Word like this (FWIW, of
course).

Greetinx
Robert
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