Thanks! At that time I got it worked out, don't recall any more exactly what I did.

Now though I have the book all set to go to press, and again I find that there are some blank pages when I print to the pdf. There are two places where it is happening:

1) After the title page and before the publishers page, a blank page is getting generated when I print to pdf. There is no such blank page in the MSW file. When I click to show the paragraph marks and other special symbols, I do not see anything there that would cause a blank page to appear here. There is no page break, no section break, nothing. The only mark I see is a greyed out paragraph symbol at the top left corner of the publishers page. It cannot be highlighted or removed. I don't know whether that may be related with it?

2) The same is occurring before the TOC. A blank page is there, in the absence of any page break, section break, etc.

3) I actually want a blank page at the end of the TOC so that the preface will begin on an odd page. To that end I had placed an odd-page section break. In my MSW file it looked perfect-- one blank page, followed by the preface starting on an odd page. But when I printed to pdf, there was not one but three blank pages in that location. So I removed the odd-page section break, and now it is printing only one blank page. Here I actually want the blank page. But having removed the odd-page section break, I do not understand why there is a blank page here when I print to PDF. Anyhow, I need one here so it is fine!

I need to get rid of these two blank pages described above before sending to the printer, and I've spent hours trying to figure out what is going on with them, why they are there, and how to get rid of them. They are driving me crazy...