Truely strange behaviour of page numbers

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Stephen Glynn

Can anyone explain this to me?

I've produced a folded booklet with pages half the size of the paper by
following the advice from Suzanne Barnhill's and Richard Keijzer's
articles on the subject on the MVP site. I've printed the booklet out
on one machine and it's just as I wanted it.

However, and this is what's puzzled me, I've emailed to myself at
another machine and have just tried printing it out there. Only the
even page numbers are printing, despite the fact that they are all
definitely there in both print layout view and print preview.

I'm mystified. How do I start to try to fix this problem?

Steve
 
I feel like I should be able to offer some guidance here, but I honestly
can't unless for some reason the Print dialog at the other machine is
somehow stuck on Even pages. The only other thing I can think of is that you
included hard page breaks in the file, and when it is reformatted for a
different printer, there's just enough overflow to make each page in the
original expand to two pages, the second one blank (containing only the page
break).

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

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Suzanne said:
I feel like I should be able to offer some guidance here, but I honestly
can't unless for some reason the Print dialog at the other machine is
somehow stuck on Even pages. The only other thing I can think of is that you
included hard page breaks in the file, and when it is reformatted for a
different printer, there's just enough overflow to make each page in the
original expand to two pages, the second one blank (containing only the page
break).
Click to expand...

Thanks. Whatever the problem is it's not with your article -- the
booklet printed perfectly well on one machine but won't on the other one
(on which, as a test, I've just run off a dummy booklet from a template
based on your article and that worked perfectly well, too).

I'll take a look for hard page breaks and see what that does. There
aren't any unexpected blank pages though; everything on the print
version is exactly as it is on screen, apart from there not being any
page numbers on the odd-numbered page. And certainly both the odd and
even page numbers fall within the paper area in print layout view.

Steve
 
Okay, I misunderstood your problem (misread your post). It's the page
*numbers* that aren't printing rather than the pages themselves? That's more
easily explained. I would not be at all surprised to see odd page numbers
omitted if (a) this is an inkjet printer and (b) the odd page numbers are on
the outside of the page and (c) the right side of the page is the last out
of the printer, since inkjet printers usually have a larger nonprintable
area on the trailing edge. You say you can see the page numbers in Print
Layout view; what about Print Preview? Print Preview is usually pretty
reliable, so I would not expect Print Preview to show the numbers if they're
not going to print.

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

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