atw: How does one stop Word playing "Blankety Blanks"?
- From: Michael Edward Granat <megranat@xxxxxxxx>
- To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 14:10:07 +1100 (EST)
Good afternoon fellow Austechwriters.
This post is about a problem that I am having with (feature
of?) Word 9 (AKA 2000) that is most noticeable when
creating PDFs.
Word persists in (sometimes randomly) producing blank
pages between sections, despite my having changed the odd
page section breaks in its document files (this is a
pervasive problem) to next page section breaks. (This is
the key reason that I have long used section / chapter
based page numbering with Word, as "page of numpages"
only seems to work reliably on Word files with few or no
section breaks.)
This blank page inclusion problem is something that only
reveals itself (in Word) in facing page print previews
(single page preview looks deceptively fine as does the
Print Layout / AKA Page View mode) and in the printed (or
virtually printed PDF) output. It is a problem that I
have only been able to overcome by editing the generated
Acrobat file to remove the redundant and unwanted blanks,
or print to duplex so that the recipients don't care.
(Unfortunately, we haven't received our customer site copy
of the full Acrobat editor yet, so I am only able to
remove the spurious blanks in Acrobat by forwarding the
PDFs home, editing them there and sending the revised
files back. A tedious method at best.)
That aside, I am not really so concerned about the few
minutes it takes to remove the blank pages from the PDFs
(when I have access to the full Acrobat package) it is the
concern of why, oh why does Word persist in generating
them, while doing its utmost to hide them from me until it
is too late that is doing my head in.
It is one of those little brain benders that makes me feel
that I am either missing something obvious (to others) or
am doing something fundamentally wrong (perhaps both) even
though it appears to be an inherent fault with how Word
(mis)handles its section breaks.
You see, the odd page section breaks work as advertised,
it is the next page ones that are creating the nuisance.
So, if you would be so kind as to try and assist with
making Word behave itself (at least to stop playing
"Blankety Blanks" in this scenario) please do take a
moment to advise me of same, before my brain stews
itself completely inside my head.
(Yes, I know that some of you might think I am asking far
too late on that point, but I digress.)
Thanks in anticipation of any assistance that you can give.
Sincerely,
Michael
Michael E. Granat
Qualified Good Tech Writer Dude
Fellowship Of The Ring Of Tech Writers, Yeah Baby!
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Without Prejudice.
E&OE.
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