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Default continuous page numbering through section breaks

With many sections, the macro certainly saves time. :-)

Thanks for the feedback!

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Stefan Blom
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A very useful macro. Thank you so much.

I struggled for an hour trying to get page numbers to be continuous across
30 pages, with each page containing multiple sections as I switched back
and forth between having 1 and 2 columns.

I tried selecting all the sections and formatting page numbers to
"Continue from previous section" (this required manually adding the Format
Page Numbers to a ribbon). This did not work.

The macro reset everything so that page numbers were all continuous,
across all sections, and I was able to manually update where I wanted
pages to start from 1. Perfect. Thanks again.

Regards,

Jules
Aerospace Engineer


On Tuesday, 17 December 2013 16:44:27 UTC-4, Stefan Blom wrote:
To clarify, this thread deals with two matters: restarting page numbers
when

there are continuous section breaks present and the behavior of fields
when

Track Changes is enabled.



Note that you don't have to use a macro in order to adjust the page

numbering. Actually, recent versions of Word make it easier to change
page

number restart options even for continuous sections. In Word 2007 and
later,

you can access the Page Number Format dialog box via Insert tab | Page

Number | Format Page Numbers.



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This was very useful, so thank you stefan, but it must be said its
really


not a great experience to need to find a script to fix page numbering










On Tuesday, December 3, 2013 7:12:21 PM UTC, Stefan Blom wrote:


Field results and auto numbers may display incorrectly when you are


tracking




changes. This is by design in Word. As you have noted, accepting (or




rejecting) changes fixes it.








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On Monday, August 24, 2009 1:16:01 PM UTC-5, jmc wrote:




The page numbering in footer returns to 1 after every section break
in


my




long document. I've repeatedly "fixed" this by clicking the
"Continue




from




previous section" button in the Page Number Format dialog box for
each




section and saved the document. But when I open the document again,


each




section starts back at page 1. I'm using Word 2007, odd and even
page




headers




and footers. What am I missing? Thanks.








I had this issue in Word 2013. I was making changes to a document
with




Track Changes on when I set up the sections and used the macro
included


in




this post to fill in the numbers. The macro worked fine but when I
save


it




and reopened it, each section was set back to beginning with page 0.


Turns




out I needed to accept all the formatting changes to create the




sections/headers and footers. THEN the page numbering would stick
when




saved. Just another nuance!