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Subject:Re: removing footer from blank page in Word From:Jo Francis Byrd <jbyrd -at- byrdwrites -dot- com> Date:Tue, 16 May 2000 15:42:30 -0500
Do you have each chapter as a separate section? If you set your section break as
odd page, that should get rid of the footer on the blank even page, in fact, you
shouldn't even have one there at all.
HTH
Jo Byrd
Alison Tartt wrote:
> When it's necessary to add a blank page to make a subsequent chapter begin on
> a recto (for two-sided printing) in MS-Word, how do you get rid of the footer
> without messing up the footers on surrounding pages? After we get all the
> footers on odds and evens set up correctly in the section, deleting the footer
> on the blank page (p. 6) removes it from a preceding page (p. 4). To be safe,
> we've made sure "Same as Previous" is turned off everywhere, but it's still
> happening. We would have had these documents finished by now with Frame, but
> our client wants them in Word.
>
> What are we doing wrong?
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Alison
