Fair enough. To add a number to every page automatically, using the PAGE
field makes perfect sense to me. The alternative would be to use a SEQ field
(starting at 106366), but you'd have to place it on each page manually. I
think what you did was just right.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
"Island Girl" wrote in message
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Could it be that I didn't phrase my question right? These numbers weren't
really page numbers at all; they were numbers the author wanted placed on
each page in sequence starting with that very high number for a totally
different reason. It's just that I didn't know any other way to get
numbers
to increment from page to page, so I just used a page field. Thus, my
"what
could go wrong?" question.
How should I have handled the situation? As usual, it was a "rush"
document
and there wasn't much time to think. You know the drill: everything's a
rush
in some offices! Given more time, I might have been able to research the
answer.
"Island Girl" wrote:
Someone wanted each page of a document to have numbers incrementing from
106367. I'm sure there's a better way, but what I did was put it in the
place of page numbers as ={PAGE} + 106366. It worked, but now I'm
wondering
what could go wrong, and what the real method of doing that would have
been.
There still might be time to change it.
Thanks again and again!