Reply To: Help with page numbering please!

Jennie said:

Oh, the stories I can tell!!!

I have been forced to add “This page intentionally left blank” to many publications. The worst ever was that I had to create a page with nothing but the number 14 in the page number position because “people might think that we forgot to print a page” and we can't have that.

Chicago Manual of Style actually has information on correctly numbering pages…I love that book. (I know, its a book, therefore I love it…but this one is always within arms reach of my work station).

Unfortunately, I sometimes lose the page number battle because of my location on the organizational food chain.

This was a great question. I wish that the correct answer(s) was/were taught as part of basic writing, language, and literature courses.

I've had clients who didn't understand the concept that sheets of paper have two sides. They insisted on starting chapters on righthand pages, but when I sent them a printout or even a PDF (with some chapter-ending lefthand pages blank), they said, “I'm not going to pay for all those blank pages! Take them out!