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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:crawfoa -at- allegiance -dot- net To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 9 May 2001 15:1:38
Jo,
Thanks a bunch! Your solution was a bull's eye. Odd how unlike formatting
in Word generally, section breaks don't follow in-line formats over
document level settings. At any rate, you have helped spare the few hairs
left on my head.
Andy
> 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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