To clarify: changing trays does *not* require a section break. You can set a
different tray for the first page on the Paper or Paper Source tab of Page
Setup. But you'll still get the behavior you complain of. Only a section
break will allow you to get around that.

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"Alex Leibovici" alex.leibovici$AT$berufsbildung-srk.ch@ wrote in message
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Thank you Susanne.

Concerning Word's handling of the "different first page" under duplex
printing: my document is not a letter, but a list of customers which,
when printed, has to have the company logo on the first page.

I still believe that Word should better correlate duplex printing with
other settings, such as tray selection, in order to provide a behavior
which is logical and consistent.

In my case, the unpleasant part was that changing trays needs a
section break, and a section break cuts the text flow between pages
(in my case it was a table, which is cut in two), which is bad when
one has to add/delete text afterwards.

Anyway, many thanks for your help

Alex

On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 12:13:42 -0600, "Suzanne S. Barnhill"
wrote:

Oooh, bummer! You can see the logic of that: "duplex" is telling the
printer, "Print page 2 on the back of the page 1 you just printed," but
selecting a different paper tray is telling Word, "Everything after page
1
comes from a different tray." The only way I can think of to get around
this
(obviously not practical for large quantities or network printers--doable
only by people like me who have a desktop printer within arm's reach) is
to
take all the paper from the same tray and just make up sets of one
letterhead sheet followed by one second sheet (which is what I do, using
the
MP tray on my LaserJet for letterhead).

To look at it another way, though, it is not customary in normal business
practice to duplex letters, so Word's handling of this is not entirely
unreasonable.