I am working on a book where each chapter is, of course, separated from the next chapter by a page break at the end of each chapter.
I'm noticing a very odd situation where, after a chapter-ending page break, I am getting a completely blank page before my next chapter begins.
I have "show formatting" turned on and I don't see anything at all that would be causing this. There's simply a page break at the end of my chapter (see screen snap 1), an empty page, and then my next chapter begins.
This is happening randomly a couple times in my book, and I'm at a loss to explain it. I haven't done anything funky like defining a fixed page size or anything.
This manuscript will be converted to PDF and uploaded to Kindle, where pagination will eventually be decided by the device the reader is using. So the only time I'm EVER manually inserting a page break is at the end of each chapter.
Attached are a couple screen snaps to illustrate what I'm seeing. The first is the very end of the chapter, and you can see the spurious blank page starting out beneath it. The second screen snap is AFTER the completely blank page, where my next chapter begins.
I know it may LOOK in the screen snap like the page break is on its own page, but I'm not placing it there. I'm placing it right after the words "came from." and the blue paragraph marker. Word itself is deciding to advance to another page.
As for the little grey paragraph format marks? I'm not inserting those. Word seems to do that on its own. Only the blue paragraph indicators are ones I've inserted.
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
