Corrupt section numbers

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Ed Jobe

I've searched the ng, but can't find an answer to this problem.

I have a doc with 24 sections with outline numbering. Each section starts on
a new page. Each section's footer does not have "Same as previous" set, page
numbering is set to start at 1 for each section, with chapter numbers
applied. The outline style has been customized so that the Header1 reads
"Section x" where x is the section number. The problem is that the doc does
not have a section 5, so I have gone to the page setup for section 5 and
incremented it to 6. The Header1 text displays "Section 6", but the page
number displays "Page 4-1". I can't find out what is causing the page
numbers to be off. The odd thing is that section 7 pages display "Page 7-1"
and all the sections afterward are correct, just not section 6. If I move
sections around in outline view, the section that takes section 6's place
now has page numbering problems. I have options set to view all codes but
don't see any extra codes. If I try fixing the page numbering in the outline
format, it messes things all up and creates a second outline style copied
from my custom one and now all the sections are assigned that style. I have
to set them to style "None" and then reassign the first style and then the
second one disappears. If the file is corrupt somehow, can I save my work?
 
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macropod

Hi Ed,

It sounds like you probably do have a Section 5 that you can't access
because it's been formatted as continuous and is empty. Such breaks
sometimes hide attached to para marks at the extreme end of a line.

One way to test and correct this would be to select File|Page Setup|Layout
and *choose* both the 'new page' and 'whole document' options.

Cheers
 
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Ed Jobe

I'm going to check again. This is an ooldd document, revised over several
years, by several people that I'm trying to clean up. I went to outline view
where the section marks display the whole width regardless. There were lots
of extra section breaks, used as page breaks. Perhaps I missed one.
 
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Ed Jobe

I can't find any other section breaks that I don't know about. I even used
vba to find the Section count and I have the correct number. There must be
something else. I'm about ready to manually number the pages. grrrr.
 
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Ed Jobe

The real question is where does the page field that's in the footer get it's
count? It isn't from the Heading 1, that has the correct number. It isn't
from the index of the section, its unique.
 
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