Word Word 2003: How to view facing pages

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Is it really possible to view facing pages in Word 2003? I've seen a lot of incorrect information (such as that Reading View shows facing pages) as well as consistent advice that you need to turn on either Mirror Margins and/or Different Right and Left Headers/Footers before Word will enable viewing facing pages - but no advice of how to actually view the facing pages.

There is no problem making Word show two pages side by side -- but they aren't FACING pages because word always shows the wrong two pages!

Word shows pages
1 2
3 4
5 6
etc

FACING Pages would be
_ 1
2 3
4 5
6 7
etc

It would be nice to be able to edit while viewing facing pages, but I'd happily settle for even getting facing pages to work in print preview.
 
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The only way I can see of doing anything remotely like this in Word is going to File>Page Setup>Layout>Different odd&even.....and then using Print Preview>Multiple Pages>1x2 Pages, which will then give you page 1 on its own, then 2&3 together etc...........you can edit from there and then close Print Preview and then save the document in Word.

Apart from that I can help no further.
 
If Ady's suggestion doesn't work, why not add a blank page as the first page in the document (just press CTRL+Enter on the first line). This should bump them out of sync and allow you to view them like that, although it is a bit of a dirty method.
 
Adywebb said:
The only way I can see of doing anything remotely like this in Word is going to File>Page Setup>Layout>Different odd&even.....and then using Print Preview>Multiple Pages>1x2 Pages, which will then give you page 1 on its own, then 2&3 together etc...........you can edit from there and then close Print Preview and then save the document in Word.
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That would be adequate if I could get Word to actually do that. I have the document set for mirror margins and different right/left headers/footers but the two page display still goes
1 2
3 4
5 6
etc
 
Works fine with my Word 2003 - maybe try not using mirror margins and different left/right headers/footers?
 
In reading mode left clicks on the top and bottom scroll bar arrows move the left hand screen number down and up by 1. This does not give the pair: blank - 1 but does give all the other adjacent pairs of pages, including the facing ones.
 
I never did find out exactly what was causing the problem but eventually I deleted the first of several section breaks in the document - which was the point where the problem was giving me fits trying to format the document to get the proper left/right pages. AFTER deleting that one section break everything else worked properly - including viewing facing pages.
 
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