What Was I Saying...?

Left is indeed odd, and right is even.

Look at it this way... your program is making a flat document with a divided page, not a book.

A book begins on the right side of the page:

+--------+--------+
| | |
| | |
| cover | page 1 |
| | |
| | |
+--------+--------+

While a MS document has no cover... so it begins on the left, where rather than a crease, there is a dividing line:

+-----------------+
| |
| | |
| page 1 | page 2 |
| | |
| |
+-----------------+

And if you use a book print (even pages print on front, odd on back), you are still going to get something like this:

Front Back
+-----------------+ +-----------------+
| | | |
| | | | | |
| page 1 | page 2 | | page 3 | page 4 |
| | | | | |
| | | |
+-----------------+ +-----------------+

So, when making a word document, you must think counter-intuitively from a book. In short, the pages are numbered backwards. :)