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How Do I Delete Page Numbers I Don't Want!
This whole page numbering and section break thing is retarded. It's not user
friendly at all. I JUST WANT TO DELETE A FEW PAGE NUMBERS AT THE FRONT OF MY BOOK! Just create a program that lets you click on the page number and delete it. AND LET THE PAGE NUMBERS START ON THE PAGE THAT I WANT WITHOUT ALL THIS SECTION BREAK CRAP! Also the page number format box NEEDS MORE OPTIONS! Here's an idea... "Start page numbering from here down" AND DON'T MAKE IT PUT PAGE NUMBERS ON THE WHOLE DOCUMENT. I've been to numerous forums and ALL KINDS OF PEOPLE ARE FRUSTRATED WITH THIS! |
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I second the suggestion you made in related post to look for another
program. All the tools you need to number a document are available in Word. However you are always free to build the better mousetrap or in your words to "Just create a program that lets you click on the page number and delete it." -- Greg Maxey/Word MVP See: http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.htm For some helpful tips using Word. James Inman wrote: This whole page numbering and section break thing is retarded. It's not user friendly at all. I JUST WANT TO DELETE A FEW PAGE NUMBERS AT THE FRONT OF MY BOOK! Just create a program that lets you click on the page number and delete it. AND LET THE PAGE NUMBERS START ON THE PAGE THAT I WANT WITHOUT ALL THIS SECTION BREAK CRAP! Also the page number format box NEEDS MORE OPTIONS! Here's an idea... "Start page numbering from here down" AND DON'T MAKE IT PUT PAGE NUMBERS ON THE WHOLE DOCUMENT. I've been to numerous forums and ALL KINDS OF PEOPLE ARE FRUSTRATED WITH THIS! |
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The Insert | Page Numbers dialog is not the proper way to insert numbers in
complex documents. It's intended primarily for very simple documents with a single section. For the type of numbering you want, see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...rontMatter.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "James Inman" wrote in message ... This whole page numbering and section break thing is retarded. It's not user friendly at all. I JUST WANT TO DELETE A FEW PAGE NUMBERS AT THE FRONT OF MY BOOK! Just create a program that lets you click on the page number and delete it. AND LET THE PAGE NUMBERS START ON THE PAGE THAT I WANT WITHOUT ALL THIS SECTION BREAK CRAP! Also the page number format box NEEDS MORE OPTIONS! Here's an idea... "Start page numbering from here down" AND DON'T MAKE IT PUT PAGE NUMBERS ON THE WHOLE DOCUMENT. I've been to numerous forums and ALL KINDS OF PEOPLE ARE FRUSTRATED WITH THIS! |
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Ok this is how I deleted page numbers I didnt want. There could be another
way but I couldnt find it. Say you have a book and it has a title page, introduction, acknowledgements and so forth. YOU DONT WANT NUMBERS ON THOSE PAGES. You want the numbers to start on the FIRST PAGE OF THE FIRST CHAPTER! This is what I did. Make sure you dont have any section breaks or manual page breaks in the section you DONT want numbers. On the page where you want the numbers to start (this is in print layout) Click on Insert / Break / Odd Page. This will be page ONE. (It should say page 1 on the bottom then 2, 3 and so forth for the rest of the book) Now go back to the page numbers you DONT want that seem to pop up every time you want to insert page numbers. On the pages you dont want numbers select View / Headers and Footers or just double click on the number. You should see this annoying Header and Footer rectangle dialog box pop up. Go to the Page Setup Button, the one that looks like a small book next to the clock. Click on that and look for a tab that says Layout. Check the box that says Different First Page. Now go below and find Preview and Apply To: click on This Point Forward. Make sure the curser is in the box where you want to delete, kill, destroy, or vaporize that number. If the number doesnt automatically delete then you can finally delete it by hitting back space. Which is WHAT IT SHOULD DO TO MAKE IT SIMPLE BUT NO! You have to go through all this. Thats how I did it. "Greg Maxey" wrote: I second the suggestion you made in related post to look for another program. All the tools you need to number a document are available in Word. However you are always free to build the better mousetrap or in your words to "Just create a program that lets you click on the page number and delete it." -- Greg Maxey/Word MVP See: http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.htm For some helpful tips using Word. James Inman wrote: This whole page numbering and section break thing is retarded. It's not user friendly at all. I JUST WANT TO DELETE A FEW PAGE NUMBERS AT THE FRONT OF MY BOOK! Just create a program that lets you click on the page number and delete it. AND LET THE PAGE NUMBERS START ON THE PAGE THAT I WANT WITHOUT ALL THIS SECTION BREAK CRAP! Also the page number format box NEEDS MORE OPTIONS! Here's an idea... "Start page numbering from here down" AND DON'T MAKE IT PUT PAGE NUMBERS ON THE WHOLE DOCUMENT. I've been to numerous forums and ALL KINDS OF PEOPLE ARE FRUSTRATED WITH THIS! |
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No that link has nothing to do with just deleteing simple single page
numbers. If you have a single document and you don't want numbers on the first few pages there needs to be a simple way to just delete those numbers. Most books or documents don't have all kinds of complex front matter. (just and introduction, contents, title page and so forth) The only thing I found on that link that helped was Step 4: Fine-tuning number placement and Numbering the front matter. "On the Layout tab of Page Setup, check the box for €śDifferent first page.€ť Youll see that you now have a separate First Page Header and First Page Footer. You can leave them empty, and there will be no page number on the first page." Then I figured out on my own that you need to click below that on Layout tab: This Point Forward. I just did the same thing on each page. But you have to make sure you have no section breaks or manuel page breaks before the page you want the numbers to start on. For complex documents you'll need a graduate degree in computer science to understand page numbering. Good luck everyone. It's just annoying. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: The Insert | Page Numbers dialog is not the proper way to insert numbers in complex documents. It's intended primarily for very simple documents with a single section. For the type of numbering you want, see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...rontMatter.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "James Inman" wrote in message ... This whole page numbering and section break thing is retarded. It's not user friendly at all. I JUST WANT TO DELETE A FEW PAGE NUMBERS AT THE FRONT OF MY BOOK! Just create a program that lets you click on the page number and delete it. AND LET THE PAGE NUMBERS START ON THE PAGE THAT I WANT WITHOUT ALL THIS SECTION BREAK CRAP! Also the page number format box NEEDS MORE OPTIONS! Here's an idea... "Start page numbering from here down" AND DON'T MAKE IT PUT PAGE NUMBERS ON THE WHOLE DOCUMENT. I've been to numerous forums and ALL KINDS OF PEOPLE ARE FRUSTRATED WITH THIS! |
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The *definition* of "front matter" is "introduction, contents, title page
and so forth." Page numbers are a section property. To omit page numbers (aside from the special case of omitting them on the first page of a section by using the "Different first page" setting and leaving the First Page Header/Footer blank), you must insert a section break between the pages you don't want numbered (or on which you don't want a number to appear) and the pages you want numbered. You can then unlink the header(s)/footer(s) in Section 2 from the one(s) in Section 1 and leave the one(s) in Section 1 empty. Whenever you select "This point forward" in Page Setup, Word inserts a section break for you. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "James Inman" wrote in message ... No that link has nothing to do with just deleteing simple single page numbers. If you have a single document and you don't want numbers on the first few pages there needs to be a simple way to just delete those numbers. Most books or documents don't have all kinds of complex front matter. (just and introduction, contents, title page and so forth) The only thing I found on that link that helped was Step 4: Fine-tuning number placement and Numbering the front matter. "On the Layout tab of Page Setup, check the box for €śDifferent first page.€ť Youll see that you now have a separate First Page Header and First Page Footer. You can leave them empty, and there will be no page number on the first page." Then I figured out on my own that you need to click below that on Layout tab: This Point Forward. I just did the same thing on each page. But you have to make sure you have no section breaks or manuel page breaks before the page you want the numbers to start on. For complex documents you'll need a graduate degree in computer science to understand page numbering. Good luck everyone. It's just annoying. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: The Insert | Page Numbers dialog is not the proper way to insert numbers in complex documents. It's intended primarily for very simple documents with a single section. For the type of numbering you want, see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...rontMatter.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "James Inman" wrote in message ... This whole page numbering and section break thing is retarded. It's not user friendly at all. I JUST WANT TO DELETE A FEW PAGE NUMBERS AT THE FRONT OF MY BOOK! Just create a program that lets you click on the page number and delete it. AND LET THE PAGE NUMBERS START ON THE PAGE THAT I WANT WITHOUT ALL THIS SECTION BREAK CRAP! Also the page number format box NEEDS MORE OPTIONS! Here's an idea... "Start page numbering from here down" AND DON'T MAKE IT PUT PAGE NUMBERS ON THE WHOLE DOCUMENT. I've been to numerous forums and ALL KINDS OF PEOPLE ARE FRUSTRATED WITH THIS! |
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I have to say that this sounds like a lot more trouble than the "correct"
method described in the articles you were referred to. The concept is simple: you have to insert a section break. You have to unlink the sections. And then you have to insert page numbers (using the Insert Page Number button on the Header and Footer toolbar, NOT Insert | Page Numbers) in only those sections where you want them to appear. If you want the numbering to start at 1 in Section 2, you also have to click Format Page Number and choose Start at 1. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "James Inman" wrote in message ... Ok this is how I deleted page numbers I didnt want. There could be another way but I couldnt find it. Say you have a book and it has a title page, introduction, acknowledgements and so forth. YOU DONT WANT NUMBERS ON THOSE PAGES. You want the numbers to start on the FIRST PAGE OF THE FIRST CHAPTER! This is what I did. Make sure you dont have any section breaks or manual page breaks in the section you DONT want numbers. On the page where you want the numbers to start (this is in print layout) Click on Insert / Break / Odd Page. This will be page ONE. (It should say page 1 on the bottom then 2, 3 and so forth for the rest of the book) Now go back to the page numbers you DONT want that seem to pop up every time you want to insert page numbers. On the pages you dont want numbers select View / Headers and Footers or just double click on the number. You should see this annoying Header and Footer rectangle dialog box pop up. Go to the Page Setup Button, the one that looks like a small book next to the clock. Click on that and look for a tab that says Layout. Check the box that says Different First Page. Now go below and find Preview and Apply To: click on This Point Forward. Make sure the curser is in the box where you want to delete, kill, destroy, or vaporize that number. If the number doesnt automatically delete then you can finally delete it by hitting back space. Which is WHAT IT SHOULD DO TO MAKE IT SIMPLE BUT NO! You have to go through all this. Thats how I did it. "Greg Maxey" wrote: I second the suggestion you made in related post to look for another program. All the tools you need to number a document are available in Word. However you are always free to build the better mousetrap or in your words to "Just create a program that lets you click on the page number and delete it." -- Greg Maxey/Word MVP See: http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.htm For some helpful tips using Word. James Inman wrote: This whole page numbering and section break thing is retarded. It's not user friendly at all. I JUST WANT TO DELETE A FEW PAGE NUMBERS AT THE FRONT OF MY BOOK! Just create a program that lets you click on the page number and delete it. AND LET THE PAGE NUMBERS START ON THE PAGE THAT I WANT WITHOUT ALL THIS SECTION BREAK CRAP! Also the page number format box NEEDS MORE OPTIONS! Here's an idea... "Start page numbering from here down" AND DON'T MAKE IT PUT PAGE NUMBERS ON THE WHOLE DOCUMENT. I've been to numerous forums and ALL KINDS OF PEOPLE ARE FRUSTRATED WITH THIS! |
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