You're confusing reality with Word's display. "bucky3" is describing the
display in Full Screen Reading view, which in fact does not show "pages" at
all, but merely "screens" numbered from 1 even if the pagination starts at
zero (it is not WYSIWYG, either). This is immutable.
It is, however, possible to see a facing-pages spread in Print Preview by
enabling either "Mirror margins" or "Different odd and even."
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"Peter T. Daniels" wrote in message
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On Sep 7, 3:37 am, bucky3 wrote:
On Sep 6, 9:11 pm, "Peter T. Daniels" wrote:
The even numbered pages can never be on the right of a two-page
spread. If you want what are now odd pages to be temporarily numbered
as even pages, you can number the first page 0.
I think you meant "even numbered pages can never be on the LEFT of a
two-page spread". Too bad. I'm pretty sure I was able to do this in
Word 2003 with the keyboard shortcut.
No, even numbers can never be on the right-hand side. Open any book at
all.
That solution is not ideal because what I do is page down in reading
layout, then when I need to, I want to put a page on the left side
(without changing the numbering).
Then you need to insert a blank (but numbered) page ahead of it and
let the numbering change. An odd-numbered page can never appear on the
left side of a spread.
Unless you're talking about one-sided printing, in which case the
entire left-right business is moot.