Mail merge unfortunately does a number on some fields. I know there are KB
articles on this, but I'm currently not finding them. In your case, however,
if you are doing a letter merge, the reason is that each "letter" is a
separate section with numbering restarted in each section.

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"Danny" wrote in message
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Hi Suzanne,

I found an issue that resulted from doing a mail merge. They page numbers
are all working until after the mail merge. After the merge, all the
pages
now are displaying page 1 and it is not a field anymore. Is there anyway
I
can keep the page field after the merge so the formula for the page
numbering
stays?

Thank you so much,
Danny

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Glad I could help.

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"Danny" wrote in message
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Suzanne,

Thank you so much for your help. This is exactly what I was looking
for.

Thank you,
Danny

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

After you have inserted the page number in the header/footer, press
Alt+F9
to display the { PAGE } field code. Add a numeric picture switch as
follows:

{ PAGE \# 00000# }

Press F9 to update the field and display the number 000001. Add the
N or
S
outside the PAGE field.

If the signature page is always the last page, you don't even need a
section
break, just a conditional field, as follows:

{ IF { PAGE } = { NUMPAGES } "{ PAGE \# 00000# }S" "{ PAGE \#
00000# }N" }

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"Danny" wrote in message
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My client has a bunch of contract templates that they use and need
to
have
the page number in s certain format (*000001N*). The N is for a
normal
contract page. The signature page will need to be suffixed with a
S
(*000003S*). The problem is when they add stuff to a page the
signature
page
sometimes gets off set. I need to find a way to do a customer
number
that
has leading zeros. I can use sections to use the N or S on the
doc
but I
need to find a way to add a custom format so I can start the page
number
at
000000. Can anyone help me?

Thank you!