Printing Odd-Numbered Pages

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G.G. Biggar, Jr.

I have a thirty-page document that begins with a cover page, followed by
several roman-numeral pages (i,ii, etc.) and finally the main body of the
text, beginning at page one (1,2,3, etc.). I am using Word 2000 on a
Windows 2000 Pro platform.

When I attempt to print pages from the main body of the text (i.e., those
pages numbered 1-25), using the "Page:" option -- whereby you type in the
page number(s) that you wish printed-- sometimes I get the page that I
specified, sometimes I get that page number, less the number of introductory
pages, including the cover page. In other words, if I specify page 25, I
may get page 21, since there are four introductory pages.

The long way around this is to repeatedly use the Print Current Page option.
I'd like to print odd pages, then reverse the pages and print even-numbered
pages -- without printing the introductory pages. Is there an easy way to
accomplish this?

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

Gordon Biggar
Houston, Texas
 
You have to include the section number. See the section "Print specific
pages and sections" in the "Print a document" Help topic.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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Greetings, Fairhope --

It appears that my HP printer (Laserjet 5P) does not like the idea. When I
give the printer the command (under Print Pages) to print: "p1s3,p3s3", or
even "p1s3-p3s3" (quotations omitted, of course), it only prints the first
page in the range. Perhaps the spacing of my printing command is not
correct?

Regards,

Gordon
 
This should work (assuming that the referenced sections have pages with
those numbers). I can't explain why it doesn't. Try posting in
microsoft.public.word.printingfonts; perhaps someone there will have a
better idea.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.mvps.org/word
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.
 
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