[Bothell writer]

I created a 297-page manual for a client in WORD, designing a new
template for it. This document will be PDFed and printed. I used hard
page breaks to allow for how the PDFed version can be condensed and
sometimes include the first couple of lines of the next page on the
output.

When two clients opened the file I e-mailed to them, it was 324 pages,
rather than the 297 pages in my version. We're all running WORD 2003,
SP2.

The client sent the file (which opened at 324 pages on his machine)
back to me and it's still 297 pages on my machine. We verified the
margins on our respective computers, and they're the same. We're
all set to print on 8-1/2" by 11" paper. Since I haven't sent
them the new template yet, I tried attaching my file to Normal template
to see if that would change anything. When I re-opened it, the file
was still 297 pages.

The page numbers and cross-references are dynamic, of course, so this
may not be a problem, but I'm concerned since I set the hard page
breaks. I'm scratching my head. Would someone please shed some light
on this?