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Copper Contributor

Jun 29, 2023

Word printing a random blank page before printing the document (booklet)

Ok I have a printing issue on a document (handbook), which is an 11x17 booklet. It has started printing a blank page before printing the actual handbook and we can't seem to locate the issue. Eve...

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William_Gibbs

Copper Contributor

Jun 29, 2023

Stefan_Blom

Sorry for the error on sharepoint. I thought it was set to share to anyone with the link. Here is a wetransfer link for the docx file. https://we.tl/t-aiOMkEGD5u

I actually discovered its trying to say something about an incorrect page size, like this one blank page is a different size than the others, but I could be wrong there.

Its definitely not page breaks or anything like that and I have went through every setting I can find. It even tries to create two PDFs when you print to PDF.

Thanks.

Stefan_Blom

MVP

Jun 30, 2023

William_Gibbs

Since you are printing a booklet, the very first sheet of paper would be the first page and the last page of the booklet, which you can then fold and get the pages in the correct order. It seems to work here, when I print a PDF version:

I downloaded the document and opened it in the full version of Word before "printing." It may not work properly from OneDrive or SharePoint (I haven't tested).