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Confused as Usual
Here is a little of the scenario that got me the phantom page, and what I
tried to do to get rid of it.
I had the main document formatted as Section 1 with no header or footer on
the first page, and different odd and even headers (right-margin aligned on
odd pages, left-margin aligned on even pages as required to show up on the
outside edge of the document when printed) but same footer (page numbers,
centered) throughout the rest of the section. Sections 2,3,4, 5 and 6 were
enclosures from 1 to 3 pages long, with the different odd and even page
headers and footers (no page numbers, just text of "Encl (X)" formatted
right- or left-margin alignment.) Enclosure 4 was a landscape-oriented
page (Word table as a form) with a following "intentionally blank" page so I
could get back to portrait orientation in Enclosure 5 and everything would
print OK. Same thing with an intentionally blank page before the landscaped
page so it would fall on an odd page (our printers won't print landscape on
back of portrait or vice versa).
At the suggestion of another suffering Word user here at work I tried to get
rid of the phantom blank page by setting "odd" and "even" page designations
into the footers. He'd had luck ridding docs of phantoms that way in the
past. Didn't work for me. It moved a couple times but never went away
entirely. I ended up managing to get rid of it, but only by leaving an
blank page at the END of the document. Every time I delete the last page,
leaving me with the doc ending on an odd page, the phantom returns (sounds
like some b-rated horror movie doesn't it? Such is my life working with WORD
and W2K). Seems like Word 2000 just can't stand the idea of a doc with an
odd number of pages? This didn't matter because I will turn it into a PDF
for publishing and I can delete the last page easily without screwing
anything up in the document (already tested that).
A few more facts: the phantom was there whether I started the document on an
odd- or even-numbered page. Page breaks I put in were initially all "next
page" type. Word changed some to "even page" and stuck in the phantom blank
at that time. Phantom doesn't show up in normal view, only Print Preview,
but you can tell it's there because the page numbers go from 12 to 14 with
no page 13 visible (it's the phantom). Oh migod, could it be because it's
page 13? Too spooky, there's the horror movie bend again.
Amazed I still have my sense of humor after all this crap!
Any help is appreciated. I'm afraid it may be a W2K thing, which means I'm
stuck with it until the Government upgrades to something smarter (not likely
anytime soon under the NMCI contract). Microsoft had no idea how fitting
the acronym "W2K" was going to be for this program, did they? I wasted
about 6 hours of the taxpayer's money trying to make this thing work right.
tried to do to get rid of it.
I had the main document formatted as Section 1 with no header or footer on
the first page, and different odd and even headers (right-margin aligned on
odd pages, left-margin aligned on even pages as required to show up on the
outside edge of the document when printed) but same footer (page numbers,
centered) throughout the rest of the section. Sections 2,3,4, 5 and 6 were
enclosures from 1 to 3 pages long, with the different odd and even page
headers and footers (no page numbers, just text of "Encl (X)" formatted
right- or left-margin alignment.) Enclosure 4 was a landscape-oriented
page (Word table as a form) with a following "intentionally blank" page so I
could get back to portrait orientation in Enclosure 5 and everything would
print OK. Same thing with an intentionally blank page before the landscaped
page so it would fall on an odd page (our printers won't print landscape on
back of portrait or vice versa).
At the suggestion of another suffering Word user here at work I tried to get
rid of the phantom blank page by setting "odd" and "even" page designations
into the footers. He'd had luck ridding docs of phantoms that way in the
past. Didn't work for me. It moved a couple times but never went away
entirely. I ended up managing to get rid of it, but only by leaving an
blank page at the END of the document. Every time I delete the last page,
leaving me with the doc ending on an odd page, the phantom returns (sounds
like some b-rated horror movie doesn't it? Such is my life working with WORD
and W2K). Seems like Word 2000 just can't stand the idea of a doc with an
odd number of pages? This didn't matter because I will turn it into a PDF
for publishing and I can delete the last page easily without screwing
anything up in the document (already tested that).
A few more facts: the phantom was there whether I started the document on an
odd- or even-numbered page. Page breaks I put in were initially all "next
page" type. Word changed some to "even page" and stuck in the phantom blank
at that time. Phantom doesn't show up in normal view, only Print Preview,
but you can tell it's there because the page numbers go from 12 to 14 with
no page 13 visible (it's the phantom). Oh migod, could it be because it's
page 13? Too spooky, there's the horror movie bend again.
Amazed I still have my sense of humor after all this crap!
Any help is appreciated. I'm afraid it may be a W2K thing, which means I'm
stuck with it until the Government upgrades to something smarter (not likely
anytime soon under the NMCI contract). Microsoft had no idea how fitting
the acronym "W2K" was going to be for this program, did they? I wasted
about 6 hours of the taxpayer's money trying to make this thing work right.