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Jim B
 
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Default Number of pages should restart with section page numbers

Suzanne, thank you for your prompt reply.

As you wrote, it would be absurd to suggest that the NumPages field to be
equal to SectionPages. They are different variables for different purposes,
both useful.

Let me try to state my suggestion more clearly.

In the floating "Header and Footer" menu that is visible while editing
headers and footers, the last choice on the menu is "Page X of Y". My
suggestion relates only to the implementation of that menu choice.

When that Autotext item is chosen, Word inserts "Page { PAGE } of
{NUMPAGES}" into the current section's header or footer. My suggestion is
to change the text expansion to "Page { PAGE } of { SECTIONPAGES }".

Of course, no autotext will be right in all situations. The current
implementation {NumPages} satisfies users who do not restart numbering at
the beginning of sections. In documents like mine that restart the page
numbers at the beginning of a section, {SectionPages} is more appropriate.

In a complex document, headers and footers are defined in Word for each
section. Since you know that the user is in the middle of editing a section
header or footer when the autotext is available on the menu, it may be more
natural for Word to insert the section's page count than the document's
length.

In a document without section breaks, the two implementations produce
identical results. I would never have thought of your example, but when a
multi-section chapter restarts numbering, neither field will work.

-Jim

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

No, the NumPages field is the number of pages; it would be absurd for it to
be anything else. In your case, SectionPages was the correct field to use.
In cases where a multi-section chapter restarts numbering (which is
continuous throughout the chapter), neither field will work, and a different
workaround will be required, but having NumPages equal SectionPages wouldn't
help there, either.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Jim B" Jim wrote in message
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The following is a suggestion for Microsoft's next iteration of Word.

I just created a document consisting of three sections. I restarted page
numbering at 1 in each section. I used the "Page x of y" footer.

Now section 1 has the footers Page 1 of 7, Page 2 of 7. Then section 2

has
pages numbered Page 1 of 7, Page 2 of 7. Section 3 has pages labeled Page

1
of 7, Page 2 of 7, Page 3 of 7.

I think the last page of each section should always have the same page
number as the page count. (For example, page 2 of 2, page 3 of 3.)

It took a long time for me to figure out how to solved the problem: I
replaced the "y" field with the field code {sectionpages} in the footer.

Would it be a good idea for Microsoft to change the "Page x of y" autotext
to default to this?



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