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Subject:Re: removing footer from blank page in Word From:Roger Bell <RBell -at- OptioSoftware -dot- com> To:TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 17 May 2000 11:15:22 -0400
I agree with Jo. After much frustration with changes in headers and footers
in Word, I finally figured out a solution.
It all starts with a good template. If you are putting multiple chapters in
a single Word file and want each chapter to begin on an odd page, then
create an odd page section break at the end of each chapter.
If your previous chapter ends in an even page, there is no blank page before
the next chapter. Otherwise, Word will insert a blank page (no headers or
footers) between the two chapters.
After inserting the odd page section breaks, I immediately go to the next
section footers and headers and unlink them from the previous section. I
find that works best for page numbering to begin for each new chapter.
Good luck,
Roger
Subject: Re: removing footer from blank page in Word
From: Jo Francis Byrd <jbyrd -at- byrdwrites -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 15:42:30 -0500
X-Message-Number: 78
Do you have each chapter as a separate section? If you set your section
break as
odd page, that should get rid of the footer on the blank even page, in fact,
you
shouldn't even have one there at all.
HTH
Jo Byrd
Alison Tartt wrote:
> When it's necessary to add a blank page to make a subsequent chapter begin
on
> a recto (for two-sided printing) in MS-Word, how do you get rid of the
footer
> without messing up the footers on surrounding pages? After we get all the
> footers on odds and evens set up correctly in the section, deleting the
footer
> on the blank page (p. 6) removes it from a preceding page (p. 4). To be
safe,
> we've made sure "Same as Previous" is turned off everywhere, but it's
still
> happening. We would have had these documents finished by now with Frame,
but
> our client wants them in Word.
>
> What are we doing wrong?
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Alison
