[Graham Mayor]

Now don't complicate things

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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Stefan Blom wrote:
But, of course, a page number such as "12-A" where the "12-" part has
been typed in, will not be correctly reflected in (say) the table of
contents.

"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
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Word does have a separate graphics layer, but it isn't going to help
with this numbering problem. For that you need section breaks - the
first at the end of Page 12. Unlink the header/footer.

In the first section you would use a numeric page number field,
starting at 1

On page 13, the first page of section 2 you would type 12- then
insert a page number field using the format ABC and start the
numbering from A. When you want to go back to the original number
sequence, insert
another section break. Insert a Page number field with numeric
digits and restart the numbering from 13.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



nick.demarco wrote:
Thanks for looking at it, Stefan. I was hoping for a miracle, like
the graphics layer in Excel, or something similar.

Wouldn't that be a neat idea? - a graphics layer that you could
activate atop the Word document itself? Then text boxes, graphics,
etc. could be placed independently of the text body.

Nick

"Stefan Blom" wrote:

As far as I can tell, what you are asking for can not be done in
Word, except by manually enter the page numbers; you probably won't
find it worth the effort.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"nick.demarco" wrote in
message ...
I have a multipage document, and part-way through, I wish to
number pages in
the header or footer in an unusual manner, e.g. 11, 12, 12-A,
12-B, 13 etc.
I'm using Word 2003 and experimented with page and section breaks,
but I cannot seem to beat this. I checked the entries here, and
didn't see this question (but may have missed it). Any ideas?
(Thank you all for your time
and dedication.)