[Connor Ketcham]

I beliee what Reza's intended question and what my question was is how to change the total page counter not the page numbering in headers/footers. Is there a way to do this.

(Like how to change picture file srg.png but NOT rgs.png)

Originally Posted by Anne Troy

Hi, Reza. What Suzanne intends: After you insert your page number field, hit
Alt+F9 (or Tools--Options, View and tick Field codes) so you can see the
code behind the page numbering, which will look like:
{ NUMPAGES }

You need to click inside of it, hit Ctrl+F9, and then edit it to make it
look like this:
{= {NUMPAGES}-1}

Then you can Alt+F9 again to turn off viewing the codes.

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~Anne Troy

www.OfficeArticles.com






"Reza" wrote in message
...
Susan
I am trying to use the calculated field but I can not do it as I do noy
know
how to.
Can you explain to me how I need to proceed?

Thanks

Reza


"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Instead of using the NumPages field, use a calculated field:

{ = { NUMPAGES } - 1)

Note, however, that the title page should really be page 1.

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"Reza" wrote in message
...
I am producing a word document. The first page is the Document cover
and
does
not count in page numbering and counting. I want to insert both the
page
number and the number of pages in my document footer. I know how to
start
with page number 1 for the second page . However I do not know how to
obtain
the correct total numbe rof pages excluding the first page. Can anyone
help
me please?

The document will have let's say 19 pages in all.
Now the first page will be the cover page
I have to start numbering from the second page onwards (in the
footer),
first page does not have a footer
so it will look like
on page 2 of document : Page 1 of 18
on page 3 of document : Page 2 of 18 etc...


thanks