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Easy Fixes/Upgrades Surprisingly Not Done Yet
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.Hello RicoWarner ,
like you I also grew with Word. I used to type my theses on a typewriter when desktop computers were not a "thing" yet as they needed an entire room to work.... 🙂
All things you describe can be fixed, and usually result from user error. It doesn't necessarily be you, it can be anyone else working with the document and doing changes without realising it. Us, the editors (and document fixers for that matter) see that every day... It's our daily bread.
From what you describe it is something that will not apply to your document anymore as it is the last draft.
Anyway, my suggestions:
1. Add an odd page section break to the first page - it doesn't throw off the mirror margins. Will have to accept the blank page, though. Can be delete in PDF, though.
2. Don't bother with headers/footers until the last draft, or you have to keep redoing it. But things you describe are the tell-tale of an inexperienced user. Education/investing time in education will get rid of this 'buggery'. They are, truly, easily fixable.
3. Odd page section break is the magic that inserts a magical blank page without showing it in Print View. Again, this is not a bug. The Last page can be actually inserted using one of the magic section breaks (odd/even section breaks).
Sorry, this does not help; it is dismissive of an issue Microsoft needs to fix and you are not helping anyone. You are presuming there is not buggery at work and it is working as intended. Have tried injecting odd pages and that only makes issues worse.
In theory, if all worked right, can add headers/footers any time in your process...and they will work. I should not have to alter my creative process to get the headers/footers to work. As add pages, they will work. As delete pages they will work. Yes, btw, I know when add a section it auto-links to previous section...and that should work. It doesn't.
