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What could go wrong? Incrementing numbers on pages
Someone wanted each page of a document to have numbers incrementing from
106367. I'm sure there's a better way, but what I did was put it in the place of page numbers as ={PAGE} + 106366. It worked, but now I'm wondering what could go wrong, and what the real method of doing that would have been. There still might be time to change it. Thanks again and again! |
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What could go wrong? Incrementing numbers on pages
Although calculated page numbers work, they won't be used by Word in
cross-references or tables of contents. A better approach is to change the "Start at" value in the Page Number Format dialog box. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Island Girl" wrote in message ... Someone wanted each page of a document to have numbers incrementing from 106367. I'm sure there's a better way, but what I did was put it in the place of page numbers as ={PAGE} + 106366. It worked, but now I'm wondering what could go wrong, and what the real method of doing that would have been. There still might be time to change it. Thanks again and again! |
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What could go wrong? Incrementing numbers on pages
Oooops! Thanks, Stefan!
"Stefan Blom" wrote: Although calculated page numbers work, they won't be used by Word in cross-references or tables of contents. A better approach is to change the "Start at" value in the Page Number Format dialog box. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Island Girl" wrote in message ... Someone wanted each page of a document to have numbers incrementing from 106367. I'm sure there's a better way, but what I did was put it in the place of page numbers as ={PAGE} + 106366. It worked, but now I'm wondering what could go wrong, and what the real method of doing that would have been. There still might be time to change it. Thanks again and again! . |
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What could go wrong? Incrementing numbers on pages
But the reason that solution was offered is that Word cannot generate page
numbers larger than (at a guess) 106366. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Island Girl" wrote in message ... Oooops! Thanks, Stefan! "Stefan Blom" wrote: Although calculated page numbers work, they won't be used by Word in cross-references or tables of contents. A better approach is to change the "Start at" value in the Page Number Format dialog box. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Island Girl" wrote in message ... Someone wanted each page of a document to have numbers incrementing from 106367. I'm sure there's a better way, but what I did was put it in the place of page numbers as ={PAGE} + 106366. It worked, but now I'm wondering what could go wrong, and what the real method of doing that would have been. There still might be time to change it. Thanks again and again! . |
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What could go wrong? Incrementing numbers on pages
Thanks, Suzanne! Looks like a do-over is in the works!
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: But the reason that solution was offered is that Word cannot generate page numbers larger than (at a guess) 106366. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Island Girl" wrote in message ... Oooops! Thanks, Stefan! "Stefan Blom" wrote: Although calculated page numbers work, they won't be used by Word in cross-references or tables of contents. A better approach is to change the "Start at" value in the Page Number Format dialog box. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Island Girl" wrote in message ... Someone wanted each page of a document to have numbers incrementing from 106367. I'm sure there's a better way, but what I did was put it in the place of page numbers as ={PAGE} + 106366. It worked, but now I'm wondering what could go wrong, and what the real method of doing that would have been. There still might be time to change it. Thanks again and again! . . |
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What could go wrong? Incrementing numbers on pages
I could be wrong about the specific number, but I do recall reading a thread
somewhere in one of these NGs in which this came up, and it was ascertained that there is some limit to page numbering. Note that this is NOT a limit to the number of actual pages (see, for example, http://www.technologyquestions.com/t...-ms-word.html), just the numbering. Ah, here we go: according to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/212159, you can have page numbers from 0 to 32,766 when using arabic numerals, 1-780 using letters of the alphabet, and 1-32,766 using roman numerals. That article is about Word 2000, but I feel sure there would be no change through Word 2003; it might be different in Word 2007 (interestingly, there has been some variation among earlier versions; see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/176137/en-us). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Island Girl" wrote in message ... Thanks, Suzanne! Looks like a do-over is in the works! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: But the reason that solution was offered is that Word cannot generate page numbers larger than (at a guess) 106366. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Island Girl" wrote in message ... Oooops! Thanks, Stefan! "Stefan Blom" wrote: Although calculated page numbers work, they won't be used by Word in cross-references or tables of contents. A better approach is to change the "Start at" value in the Page Number Format dialog box. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Island Girl" wrote in message ... Someone wanted each page of a document to have numbers incrementing from 106367. I'm sure there's a better way, but what I did was put it in the place of page numbers as ={PAGE} + 106366. It worked, but now I'm wondering what could go wrong, and what the real method of doing that would have been. There still might be time to change it. Thanks again and again! . . |
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What could go wrong? Incrementing numbers on pages
Note that 106367 does work as a starting number in Word 2007.
-- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... I could be wrong about the specific number, but I do recall reading a thread somewhere in one of these NGs in which this came up, and it was ascertained that there is some limit to page numbering. Note that this is NOT a limit to the number of actual pages (see, for example, http://www.technologyquestions.com/t...-ms-word.html), just the numbering. Ah, here we go: according to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/212159, you can have page numbers from 0 to 32,766 when using arabic numerals, 1-780 using letters of the alphabet, and 1-32,766 using roman numerals. That article is about Word 2000, but I feel sure there would be no change through Word 2003; it might be different in Word 2007 (interestingly, there has been some variation among earlier versions; see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/176137/en-us). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Island Girl" wrote in message ... Thanks, Suzanne! Looks like a do-over is in the works! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: But the reason that solution was offered is that Word cannot generate page numbers larger than (at a guess) 106366. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Island Girl" wrote in message ... Oooops! Thanks, Stefan! "Stefan Blom" wrote: Although calculated page numbers work, they won't be used by Word in cross-references or tables of contents. A better approach is to change the "Start at" value in the Page Number Format dialog box. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Island Girl" wrote in message ... Someone wanted each page of a document to have numbers incrementing from 106367. I'm sure there's a better way, but what I did was put it in the place of page numbers as ={PAGE} + 106366. It worked, but now I'm wondering what could go wrong, and what the real method of doing that would have been. There still might be time to change it. Thanks again and again! . . |
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What could go wrong? Incrementing numbers on pages
Yes. In Word 2010, you can Start At 99,999,999 maximum but the page numbers
do continue incrementing 100,000,000, 100,000,001, etc. So, the limitation is obviously with the Start At dialog box but I suspect that it isn't possible to cross ref pages in that high range. Terry Farrell "Stefan Blom" wrote in message ... Note that 106367 does work as a starting number in Word 2007. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP |
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What could go wrong? Incrementing numbers on pages
Thank you for the information.
I can't imagine that anyone would want to start page numbering at 99 999 999? -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Terry Farrell" wrote in message ... Yes. In Word 2010, you can Start At 99,999,999 maximum but the page numbers do continue incrementing 100,000,000, 100,000,001, etc. So, the limitation is obviously with the Start At dialog box but I suspect that it isn't possible to cross ref pages in that high range. Terry Farrell "Stefan Blom" wrote in message ... Note that 106367 does work as a starting number in Word 2007. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP |
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What could go wrong? Incrementing numbers on pages
Well, would you have imagined that anyone would want to start numbering at
106367? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Stefan Blom" wrote in message ... Thank you for the information. I can't imagine that anyone would want to start page numbering at 99 999 999? -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Terry Farrell" wrote in message ... Yes. In Word 2010, you can Start At 99,999,999 maximum but the page numbers do continue incrementing 100,000,000, 100,000,001, etc. So, the limitation is obviously with the Start At dialog box but I suspect that it isn't possible to cross ref pages in that high range. Terry Farrell "Stefan Blom" wrote in message ... Note that 106367 does work as a starting number in Word 2007. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP |
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What could go wrong? Incrementing numbers on pages
Good point.
-- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Well, would you have imagined that anyone would want to start numbering at 106367? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Stefan Blom" wrote in message ... Thank you for the information. I can't imagine that anyone would want to start page numbering at 99 999 999? -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Terry Farrell" wrote in message ... Yes. In Word 2010, you can Start At 99,999,999 maximum but the page numbers do continue incrementing 100,000,000, 100,000,001, etc. So, the limitation is obviously with the Start At dialog box but I suspect that it isn't possible to cross ref pages in that high range. Terry Farrell "Stefan Blom" wrote in message ... Note that 106367 does work as a starting number in Word 2007. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP |
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What could go wrong? Incrementing numbers on pages
Which the Business Systems Analyst in me has to ask, *WHY* does the page
number need to start that high? Surely there's not a document which when printed will have that high of page range. "Stefan Blom" wrote in message ... Good point. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Well, would you have imagined that anyone would want to start numbering at 106367? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Stefan Blom" wrote in message ... Thank you for the information. I can't imagine that anyone would want to start page numbering at 99 999 999? -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Terry Farrell" wrote in message ... Yes. In Word 2010, you can Start At 99,999,999 maximum but the page numbers do continue incrementing 100,000,000, 100,000,001, etc. So, the limitation is obviously with the Start At dialog box but I suspect that it isn't possible to cross ref pages in that high range. Terry Farrell "Stefan Blom" wrote in message ... Note that 106367 does work as a starting number in Word 2007. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP |
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What could go wrong? Incrementing numbers on pages
Sounds like a continuing stooorry. Some sort of serial document that is
paginated continuously over many years. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "David C. Holley" David.C.Holley wrote in message ... Which the Business Systems Analyst in me has to ask, *WHY* does the page number need to start that high? Surely there's not a document which when printed will have that high of page range. "Stefan Blom" wrote in message ... Good point. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Well, would you have imagined that anyone would want to start numbering at 106367? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Stefan Blom" wrote in message ... Thank you for the information. I can't imagine that anyone would want to start page numbering at 99 999 999? -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Terry Farrell" wrote in message ... Yes. In Word 2010, you can Start At 99,999,999 maximum but the page numbers do continue incrementing 100,000,000, 100,000,001, etc. So, the limitation is obviously with the Start At dialog box but I suspect that it isn't possible to cross ref pages in that high range. Terry Farrell "Stefan Blom" wrote in message ... Note that 106367 does work as a starting number in Word 2007. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP |
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What could go wrong? Incrementing numbers on pages
Could it be that I didn't phrase my question right? These numbers weren't
really page numbers at all; they were numbers the author wanted placed on each page in sequence starting with that very high number for a totally different reason. It's just that I didn't know any other way to get numbers to increment from page to page, so I just used a page field. Thus, my "what could go wrong?" question. How should I have handled the situation? As usual, it was a "rush" document and there wasn't much time to think. You know the drill: everything's a rush in some offices! Given more time, I might have been able to research the answer. "Island Girl" wrote: Someone wanted each page of a document to have numbers incrementing from 106367. I'm sure there's a better way, but what I did was put it in the place of page numbers as ={PAGE} + 106366. It worked, but now I'm wondering what could go wrong, and what the real method of doing that would have been. There still might be time to change it. Thanks again and again! |
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What could go wrong? Incrementing numbers on pages
Fair enough. To add a number to every page automatically, using the PAGE
field makes perfect sense to me. The alternative would be to use a SEQ field (starting at 106366), but you'd have to place it on each page manually. I think what you did was just right. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Island Girl" wrote in message ... Could it be that I didn't phrase my question right? These numbers weren't really page numbers at all; they were numbers the author wanted placed on each page in sequence starting with that very high number for a totally different reason. It's just that I didn't know any other way to get numbers to increment from page to page, so I just used a page field. Thus, my "what could go wrong?" question. How should I have handled the situation? As usual, it was a "rush" document and there wasn't much time to think. You know the drill: everything's a rush in some offices! Given more time, I might have been able to research the answer. "Island Girl" wrote: Someone wanted each page of a document to have numbers incrementing from 106367. I'm sure there's a better way, but what I did was put it in the place of page numbers as ={PAGE} + 106366. It worked, but now I'm wondering what could go wrong, and what the real method of doing that would have been. There still might be time to change it. Thanks again and again! |
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