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Easy Fixes/Upgrades Surprisingly Not Done Yet
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Below, I briefly comment on your remarks...
1. Recto (odd-numbered) pages are displayed on the right if you switch to the print preview at File > Print.
2. Headers and footers may be a bit convoluted, but they are not buggy. Each time you insert a section break, you get a new set of three headers (and footers): first page, even page, odd page. To activate all types of headers (footers), you have to enable "Different first page" and "Different odd and even pages" in Page Setup. When you add a section, the first page header of the new section is linked to its "neighbor" first page header in the preceding section by default. See http://wordfaqs.ssbarnhill.com/HeaderFooterRibbon.htm.
3. A next page section break may change into an odd page section break if the page numbering restarts in the new section. This is done because Word enforces the typographical convention that an odd-numbered page should be a right-hand page. As discussed in item #1, this will not be shown correctly in Print Layout view. The print preview (and an actual printout) will be correct, though.
If the new section changes the page orientation, sometimes the type of section will also change.
Thanks for the response. Per your comments:
1. Then cannot edit while reviewing the work.
2. It's buggy. Yes, I know all that, and that is not what I am talking about.
3. No new page numbering in scenarios I am experiencing. The page numbers are all linked to previous sections and continue from previous numbering.
Have tried to identify the use case scenarios that trigger the apparent faults, but cannot. Merely invest the time. Spent about 6hrs today on a book that is undergoing final edit pass. [In other words, header/footers have been "corrected" a number of times over the last 18 months and there is zero reason I should have to do it again. Had to go thru entire book. Found about 20 screw-ups with headers & footers. VERY GOOD CHANCE, in review of final print-ready .pdf...? That many will have auto-generated and need repair yet again.]Regarding item #2, you will have to provide a specific example, maybe a sample document which illustrates what you are referring to.
Someone here will be able to provide a suggestion for a way forward.
- No idea how to do that. It is a transient issue w/unknown ways to manifest it on demand.
Am currently wondering if a corrupted .dot file could exercise a fault. If Word is not buggy in this feature, as you claim, then it would have to be something that follows me from project to project as have dealt with this for ten years or more.
