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Rosemary - 19 Nov 2003 02:58 GMT

I am having trouble getting the correct section breaks in
my document. I need to use different sections throughout
the document, as the pages are sometimes portrait and
sometimes landscape layout. I have been using Insert-
Break-Next Page and it seems to work. But when I go to
view it in Page Layout or Print Preview, I find that I am
ending up with either an Odd Page or Even Page break.
This usually results in the addition of an extra unwanted
page in the document.

Any way around that?

Thanks for any help.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill - 19 Nov 2003 03:15 GMT

This is typical. The background is that printing landscape is evidently
harder for printers than printing portrait. Printing landscape on the back
of portrait (when pages are duplexed) seems to be especially challenging. So
printers are shirkers about this, and Word, which is totally in bed with the
printer driver, will accommodate the printer's laziness by changing your
Next Page break to Odd/Even Page. You can often get the upper hand by
changing it back. With the insertion point in the section that *begins* with
the break, go to the Layout tab of Page Setup and change the "Section start"
to "New page."

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> I am having trouble getting the correct section breaks in
> my document. I need to use different sections throughout
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> Thanks for any help.

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- 19 Nov 2003 03:31 GMT

Great - thanks for that.

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