Thanks Paul. I neglected to mention that I placed the field code in the main body of the 2nd section/page for this test. That said, I do have "Link to previous" set to False for every section.

I also neglected to mention that I am using a PostScript printer driver.

I tried enabling "Use printer metrics to lay out document", but that didn't change anything.

The test document I am using is a simplified version that was originally built by an automated service using individual templates. It also uses Word 2010 and the doc format. Placing a field code in the one template that I'd like to behave differently is OK, but I can't place IF fields in all of them because there are about 7000. I am going to try building a very basic test document manually in case there's something else at work here. Let me know if there's anything else i can try.