Page numbering overall as well as by section

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Lamar

I want to have an overall page number for identification during the drafting
stage as well as renumbering the pages for each section. Is ther any way to
do that?
 
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Lamar

Maybe I'm just too dumb to understand, but I don't think this helps. What
I'm trying to get is two seperate sets of numbers in the same document. One
set of numbers would be the simple 1,2,3 for each page of the document,
regardless of what section it's in. The other set would be the page number
for that particular section, like Section 3, Page 2. Any suggestions?
 
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Suzanne S. Barnhill

There is no easy way to do this. You need to set the numbering to restart in
each section, and then you need to use a calculated page number for the
cumulative number. The calculation is the current page number plus the sum
of the numbers of pages in the preceding sections.
 
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Lamar

Lamar said:
I want to have an overall page number for identification during the drafting
stage as well as renumbering the pages for each section. Is there any way to
do that?
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So far, all I see is differnt ways to insert the same page numbers. What
I'm trying to achieve is TWO seperate sets of page numbers displayed. One,
base on the section in which the page appears; and the second a "control"
number that gives the page number based on the entire document. I've tried
the {PAGE} , but the page number displayed still depends on the formatting of
the page number in the header or footer. Maybe there's just no way to so
this. Has anybody got any other ideas?
 
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Lamar

I jszut saw your relpy. I'm new at this, so I'm still figuring out hout this
whole thing works. It sounds like a great idea, but I don't know how to do
the formula thing. Can yu help me with that?

Thanks,
Lamar
 
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Doug Robbins

You will need to put a SECTIONPAGES field at the end of each Section. That
will display the number of pages in the Section. You will need to assign a
bookmark to each of those fields (Section1 for Section 1, Section2 for
Section 2, etc.

Then in the Header/Footer of Section 2 you will need the following formula
to display the section page numbers of that Section

{ = { PAGE } - { PAGEREF Section1 } }

In Section 3 you will need

{ = { PAGE } - { PAGEREF Section1 } - { PAGEREF Section2 }}

etc for each Section.

You must use Ctrl+F9 to insert each pair of field delimiters { }. It will
NOT work if you just type those from the keyboard. You use Alt+F9 to hide
the field codes and F9 to update the formula so that it displays the result.
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Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP
 
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Lynda Manz

Does this apply only to Office 2003 - I'm using Office 2000 and seem to
occasionally have the page number problem in Headers - I start new sections
and want the page numbering to be sequential (1 of 4, 2 of 4, 3 of 4, etc.)
in each section but many times I get 1 of 1, 2 of 2, 3 of 3, etc. Will the
formula help me in Word 2000?
 
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