Could you save a few pages demonstrating the problem on OneDrive or Dropbox and post a view link here.
Take out any proprietary or confidential information.
Ideally one sample before a change to the page numbering and one after.

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Well, you're getting a little beyond my scope of reference. I have never posted things on OneDrive or Dropbox. I have, however, put a few pages up at my website: wardsbooks.com/sample-problem.docx. If you really want it on OneDrive or Dropbox you can me a pointer on how to do that.


Interestingly, the first page of songs is okay in the document that I posted (at least on my computer) -- the line "Original Words: Will L. Thompson, 1880 " is at the bottom of the page where it belongs. It is shoved to the next page in my actual document. You can, however, still see the problem. All of the pages should start with a song title at the top, but some of the pages have the last lines of the previous page shoved down so that they push the title down and take its place.