show/hide section depending on number of pages in section

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ivory_kitten

any ideas on how to do this?

Our template prints double sided, however depending on customisations,
section 1 is either 2 pages or 3 pages. If it's 3 pages then I need to add a
4th page (blank - and also a new section) before the printing continues on to
the next section.
 
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ivory_kitten

This does not work, it does update the page numbers, but does not include a
blank page when printing.
 
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Jezebel

It doesn't show the blank page in Print layout, but it does in Print
Preview, and it will output a blank page to the printer. Unless your printer
has a setting to ignore blank pages.
 
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ivory_kitten

I did a Print Preview and it does not show a blank page before section 2, and
it definitely does not print out like that either, and our printer does not
have that option.

Let me make sure I am doing this correctly:

My Section 1 has 3 pages and i want section 2 to start on page 5, so at the
end of section 1 I insert a Section Break (Odd Page)?
 
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ivory_kitten

Ok, i figured out why it doesn't work!

Because I have page numbers for both the sections and section 2's page
numbers start again at 1 (which is an odd number) it is not inserting the
blank page, how do I have page numbers and have it leave a blank page in
between? I'd imagine that using an even page break would mess up my page
numbers?
 
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Jezebel

The trick for this is to to have the sections continue numbering from the
previous section, then use a little field trickery to get the page number
display as you want it for the subsequent sections --

1. Bookmark something on the first page of the section (such as the initial
heading).

2. In place of your current page numbers, use a nested field: { = {PAGE} -
{ PAGEREF [BOOKMARK] } + 1 }
 
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ivory_kitten

Cheers, that works a treat!

Jezebel said:
The trick for this is to to have the sections continue numbering from the
previous section, then use a little field trickery to get the page number
display as you want it for the subsequent sections --

1. Bookmark something on the first page of the section (such as the initial
heading).

2. In place of your current page numbers, use a nested field: { = {PAGE} -
{ PAGEREF [BOOKMARK] } + 1 }




ivory_kitten said:
Ok, i figured out why it doesn't work!

Because I have page numbers for both the sections and section 2's page
numbers start again at 1 (which is an odd number) it is not inserting the
blank page, how do I have page numbers and have it leave a blank page in
between? I'd imagine that using an even page break would mess up my page
numbers?
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