unable to print a section of a word document correctly

We have a document which is essentially a large book with many chapters and
section, each of which is a word section.

We update it frequently, send out via email a notice of the effected
sections, and instruct the users to print the effected sections and
re-insert them into their copy of the book that they each are responsible
for maintaining.

This is printed duplex, and there-in is the problem.

We have section break-odd pages codes between some portions. When we print
an effected section where word would have to add a blank page in order to
make it start on an odd page, then even when we print just a section of the
document Word still throws the extra blank page, which appears to look like
page 1 of the section has a blank back, and beginning with page 2 they are
correctly duplexed.

What I tried to do in the macro which does the printing is either to change
the section break type at the beginning of the section to be printed to be
"section break-new page", and, to add a page break code at the end of the
previous section before printing.

Neither has suceeded in getting Word to figure out it doesn't need to throw
a blank page at the start of the section! It's as if once Word has
calculated it needs a blank page there, we can't convince it otherwise.

I do add an activedocument.repaginate command after my modifications and
before printing.

Does anyone have any other ideas?

thanks.

Chip Orange

This isn't a printing fonts question -- you'd do much better at the
general Word help newsgroup, to which I'm crossposting this message.

On Sep 5, 12:05 pm, "Chip Orange" <Chip.Ora... DeleteThis @psc.state.fl.us> wrote:

> We have a document which is essentially a large book with many chapters and
> section, each of which is a word section.
>
> We update it frequently, send out via email a notice of the effected
> sections, and instruct the users to print the effected sections and
> re-insert them into their copy of the book that they each are responsible
> for maintaining.
>
> This is printed duplex, and there-in is the problem.
>
> We have section break-odd pages codes between some portions.  When we print
> an effected section where word would have to add a blank page in order to
> make it start on an odd page, then even when we print just a section of the
> document Word still throws the extra blank page, which appears to look like
> page 1 of the section has a blank back, and beginning with page 2 they are
> correctly duplexed.
>
> What I tried to do in the macro which does the printing is either to change
> the section break type at the beginning of the section to be printed to be
> "section break-new page", and, to add a page break code at the end of the
> previous section before printing.
>
> Neither has suceeded in getting Word to figure out it doesn't need to throw
> a blank page at the start of the section!  It's as if once Word has
> calculated it needs a blank page there, we can't convince it otherwise.
>
> I do add an activedocument.repaginate command after my modifications and
> before printing.
>
> Does anyone have any other ideas?
>
> thanks.
>
> Chip Orange