Need to add 'total pages' to footer (ie Page 2 of 5)

R

r3craven

Office 07: I can not find a way to add the 'total pages' number into Footer
- ie the "5" above... Please help!
 
H

Herb Tyson [MVP]

In the Insert tab, click the Page Number dropdown arrow, Bottom of Page.
Scroll down the list of choices. The first group is Simple, then Page X, and
then Page X of Y. There are 3 built-in choices.

Or... if you already have Page x, type " of " after the page number, press
Ctrl+F9 (inserts field braces {}), type numpages between the braces, and
press F9.
 
J

Jay Freedman

Office 07: I can not find a way to add the 'total pages' number into Footer
- ie the "5" above... Please help!

Insert a NumPages field (on the Insert ribbon, click Quick Parts,
click Field, and select NumPages from the list).

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Hafeez Esmail

My document is a bit more complex, and I need some help.
The document contains 6 sections, and all of the page numbering is within
the footers.

Section 1: Title page + TOC
Section 2: Main document
Section 3: One page that needs to be landscape in this order
Section 4: Main document...continued
Section 5: Appendix A
Section 6: Appendix B and C which are landscape

This is how I'd like my document to be numbered.
Section 1: Title page (first page) has is counted but shows no number. Page
2 and 3 have roman numerals (ii, iii).
I have manged to do this.

Section 2: Page X of Y, starting from 1, counting until the end of Section 4.
Section 3: Same as above
Section 4: Same as above
I can get the 'Page X of ' part correctly, but getting Word to understand
what I mean by 'Y' is difficult. I'd like this to be dynamic (i.e. not
requiring me to do a manual count and stick in a number each time)

Section 5: Page A1, Page A2...etc
Section 6: Page B1, Page B2...Page C1, Page C2...etc
I don't know how to get the 'A' in front of the page number, without
manually sticking it in. Likewise with the 'B' and 'C'.

TIA
Hafeez Esmail
 
S

Suzanne S. Barnhill

You can use the SectionPages field instead of NumPages to get the number of
pages in a given section.
 
H

Hafeez Esmail

Right......but how can I determine the total number of pages in sections 2, 3
and 4? In other words, how do I find {SECTIONPAGES} for section 2 +
{SECTIONPAGES} for section 3 + {SECTIONPAGES} for section 4?

TIA
Hafeez Esmail
 
S

Suzanne S. Barnhill

If you are numbering these sections continuously, then put a bookmark on the
last page of Section 4 and use a PAGEREF field to pick up the page number of
that bookmark.
 
S

Stefan Blom

The following is one way to do it: Insert a SECTIONPAGES field in each of
the three sections (place the field in the body of the document, not in the
header/footer area). Bookmark the fields, format them as hidden (or white
text), so that they won't be visible. Where you want the total number of
pages, use this field:

{ = { REF bm1 \* CHARFORMAT } + { REF bm2 \* CHARFORMAT } + { REF bm3 \*
CHARFORMAT } }

where bm# should be replaced with the bookmark names that you chose.

To insert each pair of field delimiters, { }, press Ctrl+F9. To update the
display of the selected fields, press F9. To show/hide field codes, press
Alt+F9.

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S

Stefan Blom

Hmm, it seems as if the OP is using continuous numbering. Then, clearly,
your suggestion is better than the one I suggested (four minutes later)...

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