[Terry Farrell]

No, you cannot mix portrait and landscape on the same sheet of paper. This
is a PRINTER forced limitation. Also, it is normal to start a new section on
an Odd page. So if the first section is Page 1-3, then the next section must
start on Page 5. I think it the combination of these that is making it
difficult for you. Does that help sort your problem?

--
Terry Farrell - MS Word MVP

"Shane" Shane•Varnadore@DoYouLikeGreenEggsAndSpamBoweBell Howell.com wrote
in message ...
Greetings,
We use Word 2003 in Windows XP and I'm facing an odd situation. We write
technical documents, in this case a parts list. We prefer to have the
pictures on the left side of an open book, with the list of parts on the
right. That way when you're looking at a part, you don't have to turn a
page to find the information about a part.

These picture/list combinations are done in Landscape orientation, but the
front portions of the book (cover, table of contents, etc) are done in
Portrait orientation. No real problem with a section break (I even figured
out how to deal with the headers, footers, and numbering).

The difficulty I'm facing is that in this manual the Portrait section is 3
pages long and the Landscape part starts on page 4 (normally the 'back' of
page 3). This should work, as page 3 will be in the reader's right hand
(I've printed this, and that works), then you turn the page... and page 4
is in your left hand (with the picture) and page 5 is in your right (with
the list).

Unfortunately, when I print double-sided, the back of page 3 is blank, and
the image ends up on the wrong side of the next piece of paper.

I could add two pages between 3 and 4 "Intentionally left blank" but I
would prefer not to.

As I looked into this, I noticed that there is both a section page
(inserted by me) that stops the Portrait and starts the Landscape and
throughout the ENTIRE landscape section, EVERY page has a "Section Break
(continuous)" with occasional "Page Breaks" here and there.

I'm really confused about Section Breaks beyond the simple "Insert Break
Next Page" function. I'm quite willing to completely re-format this
inherited document and start from scratch, but don't want to if I don't
have to.

Which raises the questions:

Is Word2003 unable to print a Portrait layout on one side of a page and a
Landscape on the other?

Where can I find out some information on Page Breaks in general and the
'continuous' variety in particular?

Thanks,

Shane