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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