I see you've gotten the result you need with the macro Doug provided, but
note that the reason Word is inserting (Continuous) section breaks is
undoubtedly that you have changed section-level formatting within a page,
most likely changing the number of columns. In order to access the page
numbering for these mid-page sections, you must click in the section itself,
go to Insert | Page Numbers, click on Format, and choose "Continue from
previous section." After clicking OK in the Page Number Format dialog, be
sure to click Close (not OK) in the Page Numbers dialog so you don't insert
another number.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
"BrigadierBill" wrote in message
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I'm formatting a document that is 404 pages long that MS broken up in to
sections with the last one being 187. The sections are also not numbered
in
exact sequence but goes section 1 to 2 to 4 to 8 with no sections 3, 5, 6,
7
on and on up to section 187. The numbering from sections 1, 2 and 4 is
the
way it should be but from 4 to 8 it jumps from page 14 to page 16 when I'm
working in the footer but 13 to 16 when I am working in the body. Even
though Word says there are 403 pages in the document the last page is
numbered 440. I've gone through them section by section and tried to
change
the numbering system but it refuses to work. I've followed all the
instructions on MS page but the number keep skipping. Can anyone please
help
me? I've spent hours working on this and tried dozens of solutions I
found
on the net but none of them work. Please help.