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Empty pages appearing in document after section breaks
Dear Experts
I am using Word 2002 SP3 on Win XP Pro SP2 Version 2002 I am creating a document template which currently has 3 sections. Section 1 (for the cover page) is terminated by a Next Page section break Section 2 (for the front matter) is likewise terminated by a next page section break. There is very little text in it, so it should just consist of 3 pages For some reason, however, there is a blank page between sections 1 / 2 and between 2 / 3. It shows up on Print Preview (and when printed), but not on View Print Layout. I strongly suspect that the section breaks are implicated as, when I move the cursor character by character from Section 1 to Section 2 the page number jumps from 1 to 3; likewise for Section 2 / 3, when it jumps from 3 to 5. All sections have €śDifferent odd and even€ť and €śDifferent first page€ť ticked under the headers and footers section in Page Setup; also, Mirror margins is selected under the multiple pages section. Please can anyone shed any light on this? Hopeful Kiwi |
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Empty pages appearing in document after section breaks
Your "Next Page" break has been converted to an "Odd Page" break (if you
look at the section break indicator in Normal view, you'll see this). With the insertion point in Section 2, go to the Layout tab of Page Setup and change the section start type to "New page." -- 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. "Kiwi_731" wrote in message ... Dear Experts I am using Word 2002 SP3 on Win XP Pro SP2 Version 2002 I am creating a document template which currently has 3 sections. Section 1 (for the cover page) is terminated by a Next Page section break Section 2 (for the front matter) is likewise terminated by a next page section break. There is very little text in it, so it should just consist of 3 pages For some reason, however, there is a blank page between sections 1 / 2 and between 2 / 3. It shows up on Print Preview (and when printed), but not on View Print Layout. I strongly suspect that the section breaks are implicated as, when I move the cursor character by character from Section 1 to Section 2 the page number jumps from 1 to 3; likewise for Section 2 / 3, when it jumps from 3 to 5. All sections have €śDifferent odd and even€ť and €śDifferent first page€ť ticked under the headers and footers section in Page Setup; also, Mirror margins is selected under the multiple pages section. Please can anyone shed any light on this? Hopeful Kiwi |
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"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Your "Next Page" break has been converted to an "Odd Page" break (if you look at the section break indicator in Normal view, you'll see this). With the insertion point in Section 2, go to the Layout tab of Page Setup and change the section start type to "New page." -- Thanks for the quick response. Thats the strange thing €“ the section breaks inform consistently that they are next page section breaks! When use File Page Setup to change them to Continuous, all page breaks disappear €“ as they should. As soon as I change them back to Next Page, however, _two_ page breaks appear at each one! Just to see what happened, I changed the first section break to €śEven page€ť (which is what it would be anyway), whereupon _both_ the spurious page breaks vanished! So its working, but I still have the feeling something is going to pop out and bite me. A thought €“ I have amended the page numbering on the second page/section footer to restart at one in lowercase roman numerals, just in case that affects anything (I notice it has been warned against) Just for backgrounds sake, I am trying to follow John McGhies instructions to create a standard template for a technical manual as per http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...platePart2.htm Thanks for the help. Hopeful Kiwi |
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Empty pages appearing in document after section breaks
Note that if the second section begins with an odd number, Word will not let
you make it an even page and will treat your Next Page break as an Odd Page break. -- 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. "Kiwi_731" wrote in message ... "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Your "Next Page" break has been converted to an "Odd Page" break (if you look at the section break indicator in Normal view, you'll see this). With the insertion point in Section 2, go to the Layout tab of Page Setup and change the section start type to "New page." -- Thanks for the quick response. Thats the strange thing €“ the section breaks inform consistently that they are next page section breaks! When use File Page Setup to change them to Continuous, all page breaks disappear €“ as they should. As soon as I change them back to Next Page, however, _two_ page breaks appear at each one! Just to see what happened, I changed the first section break to €śEven page€ť (which is what it would be anyway), whereupon _both_ the spurious page breaks vanished! So its working, but I still have the feeling something is going to pop out and bite me. A thought €“ I have amended the page numbering on the second page/section footer to restart at one in lowercase roman numerals, just in case that affects anything (I notice it has been warned against) Just for backgrounds sake, I am trying to follow John McGhies instructions to create a standard template for a technical manual as per http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...platePart2.htm Thanks for the help. Hopeful Kiwi |
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Empty pages appearing in document after section breaks
Aha €“ thats it!
In other words, Word wants to enforce the rule that right-hand (odd) pages always have odd page numbers and left hand pages always have even numbers? Makes sense, though a message of some kind before it just went and did it would have been helpful. Thanks a lot for the help though Suzanne. Regards Hopeful Kiwi "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Note that if the second section begins with an odd number, Word will not let you make it an even page and will treat your Next Page break as an Odd Page break. -- 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. |
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Empty pages appearing in document after section breaks
Aha €“ thats it!
In other words, Word wants to enforce the rule that right-hand (odd) pages always have odd page numbers and left hand pages always have even numbers? Makes sense, though a message of some kind before it just went and did it would have been helpful. Thanks a lot for the help though Suzanne. Regards Hopeful Kiwi "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Note that if the second section begins with an odd number, Word will not let you make it an even page and will treat your Next Page break as an Odd Page break. -- 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. |
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Empty pages appearing in document after section breaks
I *think* this probably happens only if you use "Mirror margins" or
"Different odd and even" headers/footers, either of which is a signal to Word that you intend to duplex the document. Things can get very funky, too, if you use the NUMPAGES field, because Word counts the blank page it inserts as the first page of the section (logically, since it follows the section break). If you've restarted numbering at 1 in that section, and it has, say, five pages, then you get numbers running from Page 1 of 6 to Page 5 of 6, and *there's nothing you can do about it*! -- 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. "Kiwi_731" wrote in message ... Aha €“ thats it! In other words, Word wants to enforce the rule that right-hand (odd) pages always have odd page numbers and left hand pages always have even numbers? Makes sense, though a message of some kind before it just went and did it would have been helpful. Thanks a lot for the help though Suzanne. Regards Hopeful Kiwi "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Note that if the second section begins with an odd number, Word will not let you make it an even page and will treat your Next Page break as an Odd Page break. -- 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. |
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Empty pages appearing in document after section breaks
Thanks, I'll bear it in mind.
BTW sorry for inadvertently posting twice last time. The website was throwing "cannot find the file specified" messages at me, and I thought stuff was just vanishing into the ether. Never mind - this problem solved. I expect I shall be back though... Many thanks Hopeful Kiwi "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I *think* this probably happens only if you use "Mirror margins" or "Different odd and even" headers/footers, either of which is a signal to Word that you intend to duplex the document. Things can get very funky, too, if you use the NUMPAGES field, because Word counts the blank page it inserts as the first page of the section (logically, since it follows the section break). If you've restarted numbering at 1 in that section, and it has, say, five pages, then you get numbers running from Page 1 of 6 to Page 5 of 6, and *there's nothing you can do about it*! -- 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. |
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