Hi laxonator

laxonator wrote:
i have a document automation process that gets run in access through
VBA. i'm trying to insert a fax cover sheet that is custom to the
record being merged with access. all the merging and automation is
fine. my problem is this: the fax cover sheet goes at the beginning of
the document (naturally), so this means that the rest of the document
(the main document or report) is offset by one page. i have page
numbers in the header of the report that get offset (so pg 2 or the
report is 3 and so on). of course it's page 3 in the word document as
a whole, but for a fax transmission it is intended to be page 2. is
there a way that i can mark the first page as a cover page and have it
not count as a page for the auto page number? as in, can i offset the
pages after the first page by (-1). please help, i hope there's a way
to do this. thanks!

See macropod's answer.

I could see one danger with this approach though: It does not really
change the page numbers, but simply displays something else. IOW: If the
document has a TOC, or any cross-reference to a page number, the
reference will be "off": it will still point you to whatever a PAGE
field would show on such a page, and not what you calculate with PAGE -1
etc.

An alternative would comprise of a couple of steps: using a section
break to divide the cover page from the rest of the document, ensuring
that the page numbers in section 2 start where they should , _and_
you'll want to unlink _all_ (6) possible headers/footers from section 2
from the previous section.

2cents
Robert
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