How can I insert odd page numbers only in an MS Word doc?

Question

I have two documents, a French text and an English translation. I have to present them so that page 1 of the French text is opposite page 1 of the English text - so the pages are printed double sided. Therefore I need to insert odd numbers in the French text 1, 3, 5, 7 etc and even numbers in the English translation 2, 4, 6, 8 etc. However I really can not for the life of me work out how to do this in Word! I really need properly formatted pages numbers and can not inset them manually as I also have line numbers and any extra line for a page number will be counted. Does any one have any idea! I'm going crazy! Thank you!

Answer 1

You should be able to do that from the Print facility which is in File.

It gives you lots of options

Answer 2

If you're going to keep the English and French versions synchronized page-for-page, you're probably going to be doing a lot with forced page breaks.  Any chance of merging the two documents, alternating the two versions as you go?

Alternatively, you could replace the {PAGE} fields with {SEQ} fields and increment the sequence counter by two rather than by one (or twice -- I don't remember the exact syntax of the SEQ field).

Finally, lines in the header and footer don't get line-numbered, so you _could_  put the actual page numbers in by hand in place of the {PAGE} field.

Hope one of those helps.