Thanks again. Actually I was in the PRINT module.
I kept hitting 'New Page' in the 'cells' section and worked my way to page 7 before everything fell apart. What I liked about adding pages that way is you can see all the pages and do a 'layout' then substitute photos etc., like in the book module. although I couldn't seem to find a way to view one page at a time. Six all displayed at once then the 7th went to another window.
I must have been too mentally exhausted last nite because now I see that when I reopened I inadvertently opened another file with a similar name that I'd created in the Book Module, and when it opens in the print module it scatters everything all over the place.
That 'print module' project open now. Same problem with the 'layers' on pages where images overlap one another. On page 7 they won't move at all and changes to one page screw up the others.
Not only that ...now I am unable to save a page as a jpg. Perhaps because it is being viewed as a 'project' rather than a page? I'm not able to select an individual page with all its images and save it separately. So, this won't work anyway because I can't send the 'project' to the vendor. I don't really want to save everything until done but can't imagine creating a 30 page book with the print module saving each page as you go and not being able to visualize the overall book. Not practical at all for a guy with limited memory capacity.
I am so ticked that Adobe has made this so difficult. Does Blurb 'have the goods' on someone at Adobe ...or is someone at Adobe or Adobe as a whole ...being nicely compensated in another manner to impose this insanity on paying customers? This is totally freakin' ridiculous.
My next attempt will be to see if one can select a larger page size like 13x11 in the Book Module and put a global border or margin to all pages to reduce the working area to the size wanted ...then create the book within those confines. It would mean having to build layouts for everything I guess. Presumably the book could then be saved as jpgs, those imported into LR in a collection and then synced so that cropping could all be done at once. Then the images could be exported to the vendor as full page jpgs ...to their specs. At least that way the book module could be used to create the pages.
I've totally given up on using the print module for this. Having to use identity plates to add text is another Romper Roomish feature. Crap ...I can do pages easier than that in Excel or Power Point ...do it all the time for reports at work with 100 or more images in them, but using Excel to create 'photo books' just doesn't have any romance to it and I've never tried it using those business apps at resolutions necessary for published books. One thing for sure though is Excel and PowerPoint can handle images, borders, multiple layers and overlaps, text boxes and text manipulation...etc., etc., etc. Amazing that Adobe has left us even thinking about a spreadsheet program as an option to a cripplingly vendor-restricted Book Module. When will that insanity end??
The print module was actually looking promising until I hit so many glitches. Thanks again for your help and have a great day!