I'm wondering whether anyone has experience with ensuring that a heading remains at the top of an odd page (or even page). What I am trying to accomplish is setting up a new company-wide report template that we can print to double-sided pages but keep Heading1 on the right-hand page as someone reads the report. The result of this would be that the left-hand page would either be blank (with continued page numbering) or contain text.

Ideas? Thanks for the help!

Hi elevenless,

You could achieve that by ensuring there is an Even-page (or Odd-page) Section break before each Heading1.

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Paul Edstein
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Note that this cannot be implemented through the Heading 1 style definition but must be done manually or through vba. So, the bad news is that it cannot be simply implemented in your template; you'll need to train your staff to insert the odd-page section break.

I believe that the Word MVPs have been lobbying with MS to add a Section Break before setting in Style definitions without success.

I've tried using these before and have struggled to understand them in the context of multiple sections within a document. There are times when they behave as expected and others where pages are not inserted where I expect them to be. Looks like I probably just need to play around with my specific document more to figure out the appropriate location of the even/odd-page section breaks.

Thanks for the help!

Whenever you insert a section break note that your restart your headers and footers to some extent. Each section has its own first page. You may want to see Sections / Headers and Footers in Microsoft Word 2007-2010