section break

[Guest]

I have one landscaped page in my 80 page Word document. I have placed a
section break "next" before and after the landscaped table. When I view the
document in Print Preview, it looks like there are no extra pages within the
document. However, when I print double-sided, it will print an extra page on
either side of the landscaped page, and will not double side it.

 

[Stefan Blom]

It is possible that the printer driver doesn't support pages with different
orientation to be duplexed.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

This is a result of the delicate relationship between Word and the printer
driver. Printers in general don't like to print landscape. It makes them
turn their heads sideways and think funny. So they avoid it when possible,
and what really makes their heads hurt is trying to print portrait and
landscape on the two sides of a duplexed page. (Even if you're not really
duplexing, they're going to see an odd page followed by an even one as two
sides of the same sheet if you have "Mirror margins" or "Different odd and
even" headers/footers enabled.)

The result of this is that Word may coddle the printer by changing one of
your Next Page breaks to an Odd Page break. Sometimes you can reassert your
will by going to the Layout tab of Page Setup and changing the section start
type back to "New page."

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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