I have discovered the blank pages show up in Word, though not in the document when I’m looking at it on the screen. If I try to print, however, there are the unwanted blank pages. So obviously the problem is not connected to the PDF format. You mentioned too many empty paragraphs used to push text to the next page as a possible explanation for the blank pages. I assume empty paragraphs are represented by hard returns? I do have seven lines of hard returns on an earlier page, because I need to have the rest of that section on the following page. Placing a page break after the text on the first page rather than the hard returns is no help because the text from the following page scoots up and I have to use hard returns anyway, to get it down to the next page. Is this really likely to be the problem, or could it be something else?

In that case, the blank pages may be due to the use of odd-page and/or even-page Section breaks or field coding such as that described in: https://www.msofficeforums.com/word/...html#post70481

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