Please help me!
I'm adding page numbers to a book manuscript.
The book is divided into "Parts".
Part 1 just happens to end on an odd page (101).


Therefore, the next page, 102, is blank. As such, I want to not have a page number listed. It still counts as page 102.

However, the only way to delete the page number on 102 (without deleting every single footer on all Even Pages) is to have it as a different Section. So I did a Page Break on 101 and then added a Blank Page. The page added was Odd, and this is the problem. I need to make it even.

People keep telling me that the beginning of a new section is always Odd. But I know they're wrong - I've done it before, in this very same document, as depicted in the second photo.

Please tell me what to do!

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	even.png (145.3 KB, 21 views)

FWIW, I prefer to use ordinary Section breaks and use a field in the last paragraph before the Section break to automatically manage the insertion/deletion of the blank page.

A field coded as:
{IF{=MOD({PAGE},2)}= 1 {QUOTE 12}}
or:
{IF{=MOD({PAGE},2)}= 1 "{QUOTE 12}¶
This page intentionally left blank¶
"}
respectively, will automatically insert a blank page if the page on which they occur is an odd-numbered one. To get the same effect for an even-numbered page, change the '1' to '0'.

Note: The field brace pairs (i.e. '{ }') for the above example are all created in the document itself, via Ctrl-F9 (Cmd-F9 on a Mac); you can't simply type them or copy & paste them from this message. Nor is it practicable to add them via any of the standard Word dialogues. The spaces represented in the field construction are all required. Instead of the ¶, you should use a real line/paragraph break.

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Cheers,
Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]