remove section break and renumbering??

[L.S.]

Winxp, Office 2k

Have a .doc I'm suppose to edit that is ~ 500 pages. The doc didn't have
page numbers so when I numbered pages, it turned into a mess. I'm guessing
there are "several" section breaks causing the numbering problem.

Is there a way to remove section breaks en mass? This doc has ~ 50 stories
from different writers so whoever put it together inserted section breaks or
word inserted them. Doesn't really matter how they got there but I'd rather
not go through each page checking for breaks.

When I numbered the pages, I assuming in the page numbers section (format),
that under Page numbering the "start at:" box was checked instead of
"continue from previous section".
Can I just redo numbering but check "continue from previous section"?
at least this way the entire doc is numbers in order.

thanks,

L.

 

[L.S.]

Follow up.
I tried to renumber using example below and it didn't work.

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Running a macro containing the following code should set the format of the
page numbering in each Section so that it continues from that in the
previous Section:

Dim i As Long
With ActiveDocument
For i = 1 To .Sections.Count
.Sections(i).Footers(1).PageNumbers.RestartNumberingAtSection =
False
Next i
End With


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