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Re: Word 2000: Section break - odd page, shifting to next page ??!!
Subject:Re: Word 2000: Section break - odd page, shifting to next page ??!! From:Jo Francis Byrd <jbyrd -at- byrdwrites -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 09 May 2001 16:26:07 -0500
Andy,
Check your page set up - the layout tab. I had this exact same problem, and it
turns out it was defined for the whole document to be next page. Change the
Section Start option, and that should solve your problem.
HTH
Jo Byrd
crawfoa -at- allegiance -dot- net wrote:
> I am revising a 200+ page document in Word 2000, and want to place the first
> page of each chapter on an odd page (right side). I inserted section
> break-odd page before each chapter, which appeared to take, but if I scroll
> off the page and work with other section breaks on other chapters, or format
> the section headers or footers, the break mysteriously changes to a next page,
> rendering some of those pages to even number/left side pages.
>
> The archives show a thread on a very similar issue from JAN 00, but no one
> seemed to have a solution then. Any ideas????
>
> BTW, I received Framemaker last week, so hopefully future projects will not
> suffer from such Gates' disease symptons, but in the meantime, any solutions
> in Word?
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