You can only have line numbers in a Word document in there are lines in the document to number. Your 'pages' merely contain section breaks. If you fill the pages with paragraph breaks then the pages are no longer empty. They would contain paragraphs without text.

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And/or line breaks... Either way the printed page will have only the line #s. Depending on the paragraph formatting, the line count will differ according to whatever mix of paragraph breaks and line breaks one uses.

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Thanks for the replies.

How can I fill the blank pages with line breaks or paragraph breaks so they are no longer empty? I am looking for an automated way to do this, so wondered if there was some macro code that could do it? Or alternatively can this be done by something like find and replace?