[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

A perhaps more common example could have been given, but I would not call
that "jerry-rigged" at all.

It is not uncommon to have a document with a cover page, an
introduction/table of contents on pages numbered with roman numerals and the
main body of the document numbered with arabic numbers starting at 1.

That is unless you call what has to be done to come up with that arrangement
"jerry-rigging"

If the page numbering in the main body of the document is formatted to start
at 1 rather than Continue from the previous section and then a section break
is inserted into the body of the document for what ever reason (change of
orientation, etc.), the numbering in the new section will start
automatically start at 1.

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Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com

"CyberTaz" wrote in message
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On 6/2/10 10:09 PM, in article a8f3c0034116a@uwe, "Pamelia Caswell via
OfficeKB.com" u43222@uwe wrote:

CyberTaz wrote:
The fact remains, though, that the imposition of Continuous section
breaks
-- or any other type -- neither inherently disrupts the continuity of
Headers or Footers, nor interferes with page numbering. Further, it
makes
absolutely no difference whether the CSBs span a single empty paragraph
or
multiple pages... or even whether there are several CSBs on a single
page.

I very much disagree with you on this point. Try this: in a new document
header, add the page number code and set the page numbering to start at
22.
Add page breaks until you get to page 26. Add some text, select it, and
make
it double column. Add a page break after the text. The next page number
shown will be 23.

You don't seem to realize that you have done nothing here but reinforce
the
very points I am making. I would never consider doing any such hatchet job
for experimental or any other purpose. *Anything* can be expected to fail
if
it's jerry-rigged to do so. If you want a *valid* test of what I'm saying:

1- Create the new document & populate it with =rand(40,17),
2- Create you Header/Footer & include page numbers,
3- Select as many portions as you wish, each of whatever length you prefer
&
apply your columnar layout as you go.

There will be NO disruption to the H/F or page numbering. This is what the
OP was attempting to do. Anything beyond that is irrelevant.

If you then want to hack at it in the manner you describe [i.e., "Add a
page
break after the text."] I can't be held accountable for the
consequences...
Nor can the original section breaks.


The band-aid fix is to change 23 to 27. But later changes to the
document
that cause section 3 to cross pages will bring the page number problem
back.
The better fix is to go to the header for section 3 (& any later
sections, as
appropriate) and set the page number start value to continuous.
The best "fix" is to understand that Word replicates section settings in
new
sections and to fix it before leaving the page.

... Or to avoid creating such a shambles in the first place. Quite
frankly,
though, when I have to rework a document that has been mismanaged as badly
as what you describe I consider the "best fix" to reconstruct it.

You've conveniently snipped the last paragraph of my reply which pertains
to
every aspect of your response, so I'll reinsert it he

I don't doubt that you may have had to "fix such documents", but it
isn't
the fault of the section breaks that the documents needed fixing. It's
how
the sections were mangled that caused the breakage.


Pam

Regards |:)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac