[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I'm not sure what you mean by this; when I create PDFs, the blank pages are
included in the result, and they certainly "show" if I page through the
document.

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"Griff" wrote in message
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Hi, I agree it is very perverse, but when you are putting a document into
PDF
format, then the blank pages do not show....so the page numbers jump, for
example page 1,2,3....5...

However, is there a way of creating an IF statement in word. For example,
if the previous page is blank then PAGE NUMBER is -1, otherwise PAGE
NUMBER
stays the same.

Sorry to be a pain.


"Jay Freedman" wrote:

True, but for some people perversity is the spice of life. g

Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
Note, however, that this is a very perverse and confusing thing to do.
Publishing convention is that odd pages are always verso (right-hand)
pages and vice versa. That's what readers expect, and you'll only
confuse them if you buck the convention.


"Jay Freedman" wrote in message
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There's no way I've ever seen to coerce Word into printing genuinely
even-numbered pages on the "front" side of duplexed sheets. That
means you can't use the "set section starting page" function for
this. However, the "page number" that prints on the paper doesn't
have to be the real page number. :-)

If you know that section 1 will end on an odd page and there will be
a blank unnumbered page on the back of it, you can open the
header/footer of section 2 and replace the {Page} field with {=
{Page} - 1}. The result of this field will be 1 less than the actual
page number.

Don't try to set this up until the document has been completely
edited and formatted. Otherwise you'll get into a near-endless round
of adjusting the page numbers after every edit.

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Griff wrote:
Hi
I have a document which needs to be printed double sided. New
sections should start on a new page, but on an odd page. However, I
want the page numbers to continue.

For example, I put an odd page break after page 9. If printed then
page 9 will print double sided with a blank page on the back (which
is correct). I then want to insert a new odd section, but I want
the page number to start at page 10....(and not 11).

Any ideas. Apologises if this has already been answered, but I have
spent an hour looking through all the messages.