Oddity in Page Numbering

[CJ]

I have "Page X of Y" page numbering enabled in the footer
of a 7 page Word document. On screen it shows Page 1 of
7, Page 2 of 7, etc. but when it prints, it prints Page 1
of 1, Page 2 of 2, Page 3 of 3, etc. I've never had this
problem before on page numbering and have no idea what's
causing it to lose the total number pages (7) upon
printing (but is correct on screen). I'm running Win2000
& Office2000 on a 1.8Ghz/512M RAM machine. Has anyone
else had this problem or know of an update? It's doing
this on all my Word docs with page numbering now.

TIA for any help!
-CJ

 

[Byrom]

I started having the same problem with Word XP very
recently after having no problems before (related to
installing updates?). I found a Nov. 14 posting in this
newsgroup where another person using Word XP found that
printing from Print Preview was o.k., but not from the
regular view. There is an exchange of e-mails there that
did not prove helpful to the requester, as Word XP was
involved. I found that printing from Print Preview works,
but that in no way resolves our basic problem!

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/AppErrors/PageXofY.htm

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Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

This was supposed to be fixed by Word 2000 SR-1, but you're not the first
who has reported the problem in Word 2002. You can still use the workarounds
described at http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/AppErrors/PageXofY.htm

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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[CJ]

Thanks for all the responses. I am running Word 2000, not
2002 but did the SR-1 update several months ago. I'll try
that again and will check out the link you left. The
other issue is that I can't print from Print Preview
because these templates (with fields & macros) run in the
background to a database I'm working on. The application
sends data to the Word templates which propagates that
data into the fields and prints the document. Hence,
those operations are done without the end user seeing
Word, hence I can't put it into Print Preview.

Personally, I'm quite surprised that something as easy as
this problem isn't fixed or doesn't offer an update that
works. Okay, maybe I'm not surprised.... :-(

Thanks again for taking the time to respond and for your
assistance.

-cj

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I would be inclined to suspect the third-party application of causing the
problem.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.mvps.org/word
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all may benefit.

 

[cici]

i am having the same problem. having a tech from my
helpdesk walk into my office made it temporarily disappear
once. now it's back. someone help us - we need an answer
to this problem now!

 

[cici]

-----Original Message-----
I have "Page X of Y" page numbering enabled in the footer
of a 7 page Word document. On screen it shows Page 1 of
7, Page 2 of 7, etc. but when it prints, it prints Page 1
of 1, Page 2 of 2, Page 3 of 3, etc. I've never had this
problem before on page numbering and have no idea what's
causing it to lose the total number pages (7) upon
printing (but is correct on screen). I'm running Win2000
& Office2000 on a 1.8Ghz/512M RAM machine. Has anyone
else had this problem or know of an update? It's doing
this on all my Word docs with page numbering now.

TIA for any help!
-CJ
.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/AppErrors/PageXofY.htm

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.mvps.org/word
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

 

[Byrom]

I tried #2 in the referenced document, and my document got
screwed up with "Update Fields"checked. Therefore, I'm now
gun-shy about these workarounds for Word 2002. I'll try
some more, but at least printing from the "Print Preview"
screen doesn't mess things up. There has to be a better
way!

 

[Brian]

**Copy of post I made in a similar thread above....**

I too have started seeing this problem on many of my user's PC, including my
own. All the problems I have seen are in Office XP. It seems that my
computers that I have not applied the latest batch of Office updates to do
not experience this problem. I tried updating two of them with all the
latest patches, and two started having the problem, and one did not.
Unfortunately, there is no way to remove the patches that I know of.

I also tried reinstalling office XP on my computer (at the MS tech's
request), and now that it is reinstalled and repatched, it does not seem to
have this problem anymore. That still doesn't explain why these latest
patches are breaking the page numbering on so many computers.

Maybe if we raise enough stink about it, MS will respond... =)

Brian

 

[U. Goh]

Hi, the problem of the page numbering on my PC is solved, I installed
the service pack SR1 for Windows 2000. Hope it works for you too.
Ursula