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Page setup settings scope and section break behavior
It appears that some page setup settings (mirror margins, even/odd) span the
whole document whether you want them to or not, while others (different first page) can apply to individual sections. Further, in an older document (probably created back in the Word 97 era) a next-page section break after the first page of the document acts like an odd-page break (a blank page 2 is inserted) when either mirror margins or odd/even headers/footers is checked. This did not happen when I tried to duplicate it in a small test document created in Word 2003, and I do not want it to happen in this document. For the desired formatting. page 2 of the document is supposed to be the start of a section that begins on an even page. I haven't found any documentation of the nitty-gritty on these behaviors and would appreciate ideas on where to find some. I hope to find a workaround that is more efficient than copying the contents of the older document into a new one paragraph by paragraph (which I think should work). ---------------------- Thanks in advance. |
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You may be able to change the section start type on the Layout tab of Page
Setup. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "salliesatt" wrote in message ... It appears that some page setup settings (mirror margins, even/odd) span the whole document whether you want them to or not, while others (different first page) can apply to individual sections. Further, in an older document (probably created back in the Word 97 era) a next-page section break after the first page of the document acts like an odd-page break (a blank page 2 is inserted) when either mirror margins or odd/even headers/footers is checked. This did not happen when I tried to duplicate it in a small test document created in Word 2003, and I do not want it to happen in this document. For the desired formatting. page 2 of the document is supposed to be the start of a section that begins on an even page. I haven't found any documentation of the nitty-gritty on these behaviors and would appreciate ideas on where to find some. I hope to find a workaround that is more efficient than copying the contents of the older document into a new one paragraph by paragraph (which I think should work). ---------------------- Thanks in advance. |
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I should have stated in my problem description that the section break type
continues to display as "Next Page" even though it acts like "Odd Page". It is as if something is going on backstage, very curious. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You may be able to change the section start type on the Layout tab of Page Setup. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "salliesatt" wrote in message ... It appears that some page setup settings (mirror margins, even/odd) span the whole document whether you want them to or not, while others (different first page) can apply to individual sections. Further, in an older document (probably created back in the Word 97 era) a next-page section break after the first page of the document acts like an odd-page break (a blank page 2 is inserted) when either mirror margins or odd/even headers/footers is checked. This did not happen when I tried to duplicate it in a small test document created in Word 2003, and I do not want it to happen in this document. For the desired formatting. page 2 of the document is supposed to be the start of a section that begins on an even page. I haven't found any documentation of the nitty-gritty on these behaviors and would appreciate ideas on where to find some. I hope to find a workaround that is more efficient than copying the contents of the older document into a new one paragraph by paragraph (which I think should work). ---------------------- Thanks in advance. |
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If you restart numbering with an odd number, then Word will insist on seeing
that as an odd page if you are duplexing. If the page is really numbered 2, then I don't understand why Word is doing this. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "salliesatt" wrote in message ... I should have stated in my problem description that the section break type continues to display as "Next Page" even though it acts like "Odd Page". It is as if something is going on backstage, very curious. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You may be able to change the section start type on the Layout tab of Page Setup. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "salliesatt" wrote in message ... It appears that some page setup settings (mirror margins, even/odd) span the whole document whether you want them to or not, while others (different first page) can apply to individual sections. Further, in an older document (probably created back in the Word 97 era) a next-page section break after the first page of the document acts like an odd-page break (a blank page 2 is inserted) when either mirror margins or odd/even headers/footers is checked. This did not happen when I tried to duplicate it in a small test document created in Word 2003, and I do not want it to happen in this document. For the desired formatting. page 2 of the document is supposed to be the start of a section that begins on an even page. I haven't found any documentation of the nitty-gritty on these behaviors and would appreciate ideas on where to find some. I hope to find a workaround that is more efficient than copying the contents of the older document into a new one paragraph by paragraph (which I think should work). ---------------------- Thanks in advance. |