RE: MS Word: force blank pages between sections

["Lisa Wright" <liwright -at- earthlink -dot- net>]

This works for making sure that subsequent sections have the same header and
footer (when the "Same as Previous" option is selected for the
header/footer), but it doesn't apply to blank pages that Word inserts when
it starts the next section on an odd or even page, at least not in Word 2002
(or any version that I've ever used). Word inserts a blank page.

Lisa 

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John Cornellier writes: 

> 
> Greetings, Word Mavens:
> Scenario: TofC starts on an odd page. Because of pg numbering, I put a
section break at the end of the ToC. I want Chapter 1 to begin on an odd
page.
> So I make the section break and "odd page" one. Sure enough, Chapter 1
start on an odd page, but the TofC is only one page long and Word does not
insert a blank page on its back.
> What do I do to get Word to dynamically create an even (blank, with
headers and footers) page between two sections when the first one ends on an
odd page?
> An obvious solution is to create the extra page by hand (ie with a page
break), but then what if the doc grows & the TofC becomes two pages ... ?
Then I'll have to go back and dekludge.

When setting up your headers and footers for any section, make sure that the

section contains three pages, even if some of them are blank. When you have 
created the three sets of headers and footers, you can delete the blank 
pages.
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Lyndsey Amott
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