Re: Double-sided Printing with Portait and Landscape mixed - also Page Break question.

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No, you cannot mix portrait and landscape on the same *** of paper. This is a PRINTER forced limitation. Also, it is normal to start a new section on an Odd page. So if the first section is Page 1-3, then the next section must start on Page 5. I think it the combination of these that is making it difficult for you. Does that help sort your problem?

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Terry Farrell - MS Word MVP

"Shane" <Shane•Varnadore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%23%23semcLuHHA.4440@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Greetings,
We use Word 2003 in Windows XP and I'm facing an odd situation. We write technical documents, in this case a parts list. We prefer to have the pictures on the left side of an open book, with the list of parts on the right. That way when you're looking at a part, you don't have to turn a page to find the information about a part.

These picture/list combinations are done in Landscape orientation, but the front portions of the book (cover, table of contents, etc) are done in Portrait orientation. No real problem with a section break (I even figured out how to deal with the headers, footers, and numbering).

The difficulty I'm facing is that in this manual the Portrait section is 3 pages long and the Landscape part starts on page 4 (normally the 'back' of page 3). This should work, as page 3 will be in the reader's right hand (I've printed this, and that works), then you turn the page... and page 4 is in your left hand (with the picture) and page 5 is in your right (with the list).

Unfortunately, when I print double-sided, the back of page 3 is blank, and the image ends up on the wrong side of the next piece of paper.

I could add two pages between 3 and 4 "Intentionally left blank" but I would prefer not to.

As I looked into this, I noticed that there is both a section page (inserted by me) that stops the Portrait and starts the Landscape and throughout the ENTIRE landscape section, EVERY page has a "Section Break (continuous)" with occasional "Page Breaks" here and there.

I'm really confused about Section Breaks beyond the simple "Insert > Break > Next Page" function. I'm quite willing to completely re-format this inherited document and start from scratch, but don't want to if I don't have to.

Which raises the questions:

Is Word2003 unable to print a Portrait layout on one side of a page and a Landscape on the other?

Where can I find out some information on Page Breaks in general and the 'continuous' variety in particular?

Thanks,

Shane


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