You can align the text of odd page footers (or headers) to the right
and the text of even page footers to the left. To position page
numbers outside the margins, use a negative indent (a negative right
indent for right-aligned text and a negative left indent for
left-aligned text). If your footers (headers) also contain other data,
you may have to use tab stops instead of paragraph alignment.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"tinhorn" wrote in message
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Thanks, but y'see, using the header/footer bar, I can specify left
or right
justification, but not outside. Outside is an option only when
using the
Insert feature. I'm formatting books and the first page of a
chapter could
be either odd or even numbered.

Unless you know where to find the "outside" option from the
header/footer
toolbar...

"Stefan Blom" wrote:

Using the header/footer toolbar is the recommended way to insert
page
numbers in Word (although InsertPage Numbers seems to easy!).

Since you have "Different odd and even" enabled, you can position
the
page number differently on odd and even pages (corresponding to
the
"Outside" option in the Page Numbers dialog box).

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"tinhorn" wrote in message
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Yes, those were the first things I checked, too.

I got numbers to appear by deleting them all, then inserting
them
from the
header/footer toolbar instead of Insert, Page Number function,
but I
had to
center them - no "outside" option.