Ending page numbering
Thanks. I have read a bunch of things on fields, page numbering, etc., and
apparently I am too dense to figure this out. My document is working well
enough (even if for the wrong reasons) and I ought to leave well enough
alone. As long as my sections 2, 3 and 4 are only 1 page long no page
numbers show up in those sections, which was my goal. It seems to make no
difference whether each section's footer is linked to the previous footer or
not. Seems the key is Different First page. As long as that is checked for
each section no page numbers show up. But if any of those sections is
larger than 1 page the page number appears starting on page 2 of that
section. So as long as I keep that in mind I am OK. If ever I need any of
those sections to be longer than a single page I will jump off that bridge
when I come to it. (My memory may be foggy after all these years since
WordPerfect was effectively wiped out by Windows but I think I distantly
recall the ability to suppress the page numbering where desired. Oh well.)
"Jezebel" wrote in message
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{ SectionPages } is a field. If you don't want to see it, don't insert the
field. If you need the value for arithmetic elsewhere, format it as hidden.
Help will explain the \Arabic and \*MERGEFORMAT switches. You will save
yourself an amount of anguish if you read up on what fields are and why to
use them (given that you are using them already).
Also, read again the note on what 'different first page' does.
"Joe McGuire" wrote in message
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Thanks. I tried inserting the field SectionPages and ended up with
{SECTIONPAGES \ Arabic \*MERGEFORMAT }. Now the first page of each of
the added section starts with 1. Is there a way to get rid of this, at
least for the first page? I have checked different from first page wut
it seems to have no effect.
"Jezebel" wrote in message
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You're confusing several issues.
1. The 'Different first page' and 'Different odd and even' options on
p }age setup have nothing to do with page numbering. They control
whether you have different headers and footers on the first/odd/even
pages. These settings can be different for each section of the document.
2. By default, each section of a document uses the same headers and
footers as the previous section; but it need not. The 'Same as previous'
button the Headers and Footers toolbar controls this.
3. You can restart the page numbering for any section by going to Insert
Page Numbers Format and setting the 'Start at' value.
4. Pages are always counted (as you observe). The page number is
*displayed* by inserting a { PAGE } field. If you click OK on the Insert
Page numbers dialog, Word automatically inserts a { PAGE } field in
the footer: but you can do this manually also, and put the page number
anywhere.
If you need to skip pages in your numbering, you can do arithmetic with
the page value, as for any other kind of calculation field, eg
{ = { PAGE } * 2 - 1 }
You can also use a { SECTIONPAGES } field to get the number of pages in
the current section.
"Joe McGuire" wrote in message
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This is embarassing. How do I end page numbering in a section of my
lengthy document without also wiping out the page numbers I actually
want to keep in the first section? The object is to have 20-30-40
numbered pages in a single section followed by 3 or 4 separate pages
with each preceded by a section break.
The gory details: I actually have 4 sections. Sections 2, 3 and 4 are
just 1 page each and are actually preexisting documents I inserted.
Page numbering seems to end in sections 2 and 3, but resumes in section
4--where the page numbering reflects the unnumbered pages in the
preceding sections, which are obviously being counted if not displayed.
When I checked Page Setup for sections 2 and 3 I found that it was set
fo Different First Page, whereas section 4 was not. I changed this
setting and now section 4 does not show any page number. But
obviously, the page numbering is still there, just not displayed for
the first page of the section. If the sections were longer than a
single page I would be stuck.
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