You've already got a completely blank page! When your document page numbering skips from 3 to 5 (and the formatted page numbers presumably skip from iii to 1), you know there is a blank page. You cannot get these blank pages to show in Print Layout view;
they are displayed only in Print Preview and then only when you display two or more pages.
If you prefer to have a blank page that you can see in Print Layout view, then you can use the field construction explained at
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/InsEvnPgEndChap.htm, but that is a lot of work and really intended for users who want a "blank" page on which they can
put content such as "This page intentionally left blank."
I would be very happy not to have the blank page in Print Layout view, IF I really could get Print Preview to show it the way I want. Eliminating the page break and thus the blank page in Print Layout view does NOT solve the problem. The resulting Print
Preview now shows no blank page at all. I can get zero or I can get two, but I cannot get one blank page.
If I change the Continuous section break at the end of the 4-column table to a Next Page section break, then it automatically changes the Continuous section break at the start of the 4-column table to a Next Page section break ... which is not what I want,
since the table has to be on page 3 after the text that is still in section 1.
Going back to the original configuration and replacing the Page break after the end of Section 2's Continuous section break with a Next Page section break does not work either. Now, not only am I back to two blank pages, but one of them has a page number
on it.
Telling me what the symptoms are confirms that you are onto the right problem, But I have no clue what you think the answer is, and everything that I try to implement some interpretation of your notes does not solve the problem. Please be very specific about
what configuration of section breaks that I should be using to achieve what you think I should be able to achieve.