You can do this, albeit with a caveat: calculated page numbers will not show
up correctly in an automatic TOC.

1. Your second request is actually the easier one. Just put { = ({ PAGE } +
1)/2 } in the Header or Footer.

2. For the first, check the box for "Different odd and even" on the Layout
tab of Page Setup and put the same field in the Odd Page Header/Footer.

The pairs of field delimiters (the things that look like braces but can't be
entered from the keyboard) must be inserted using Ctrl+F9.

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"Consuela" wrote in message
...
I have a strange request - I need to create a template
which will have text on both even and odd pages (printed
duplex) but only have page numbering on the odd pages,
starting from 1 and continuing as per normal (not only
1,3,5...)

Alternatively, if there's a way to edit the page numbering
so that it increments by halves, so I'd see 1, 2, 3, 4...
on the right and .5, 1.5, 2.5... on the left, that would
work too.

Any suggestions? I really don't want to have to type in
page numbers manually to get this accomplished.

Thanks!