Blank pages created in word when generating printed documentation!!

Hello Peter,

Do you mean this?

or this?

When I unchecked 'Start each topic on a new page' from the first image, a few of the blank pages between chapters were removed but most remained.  Interestingly enough, all topics were still on a new page whereas I expected one topic to go immediately to the next without a page break.

Since that checkbox apparently didn't seem to do much, I left it unchecked and next deselected 'Start new chapters on odd pages' in the advanced settings (which I believe was your intent).  A couple more of the blank pages disappeared but most are still there.

For what its worth, my opus is a monster manual, some 900 pages and 10 chapters....

Disclaimer: I'm a RoboHelp newbie, too, and know just enough to get into trouble.

I prefer to create the PDF from Word but I don't think it makes a difference for this issue...

I ran into the same problem and tried to find a Word 2010 blank page suppression setting - no joy.  I did, however, find a workaround that did the trick.  First, whether you create the PDF from RoboHelp or from the Word doc the blank pages are visible in all their glory (at least the page numbering is now correct).  In the Word doc I see the same skipping of the page numbers which indicates an invisible blank page.  I noticed that it always occurs on a new chapter - I also start each topic on a new page and numbering is fine within the chapters.

Try this:

1. In the Word doc, turn on the Paragraph Marking thingy.
2. Now you can see returns, page breaks and most importantly - section breaks.
3. Highlight and delete all the section breaks where it skips a page.
4. Word may fight you on this and try to incorporate the next heading as part of the ending paragraph; however, this could be caused by sloppy mouse highlighting on my part...
5. If required, insert a Page Break and reformat the next heading as required to restore order.

Now your page numbering is correct in Word and when you save as PDF the blank pages are gone

Hi Pete,

Thanks for the response, but have tried all the option to sort out and the problem still persists!! Will give it another try to check the blank pages in word.

Cheers,

VPriyanka

I think you are getting caught by a Word setting. To prove that, print the Word document and I think you will get the blank pages you are seeing in the PDF. There is a Word setting somewhere that suppresses the blank pages on screen.

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