See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/PageXofY.htm

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Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Lynda Manz" Lynda wrote in message
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Does this apply only to Office 2003 - I'm using Office 2000 and seem to
occasionally have the page number problem in Headers - I start new
sections
and want the page numbering to be sequential (1 of 4, 2 of 4, 3 of 4,
etc.)
in each section but many times I get 1 of 1, 2 of 2, 3 of 3, etc. Will the
formula help me in Word 2000?

"Doug Robbins" wrote:

You will need to put a SECTIONPAGES field at the end of each Section.
That
will display the number of pages in the Section. You will need to
assign a
bookmark to each of those fields (Section1 for Section 1, Section2 for
Section 2, etc.

Then in the Header/Footer of Section 2 you will need the following
formula
to display the section page numbers of that Section

{ = { PAGE } - { PAGEREF Section1 } }

In Section 3 you will need

{ = { PAGE } - { PAGEREF Section1 } - { PAGEREF Section2 }}

etc for each Section.

You must use Ctrl+F9 to insert each pair of field delimiters { }. It
will
NOT work if you just type those from the keyboard. You use Alt+F9 to
hide
the field codes and F9 to update the formula so that it displays the
result.
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Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP
"Lamar" wrote in message
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I jszut saw your relpy. I'm new at this, so I'm still figuring out
hout
this
whole thing works. It sounds like a great idea, but I don't know how
to
do
the formula thing. Can yu help me with that?

Thanks,
Lamar

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Did you read my reply?

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Words into Type
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"Lamar" wrote in message
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"Lamar" wrote:

I want to have an overall page number for identification during
the
drafting
stage as well as renumbering the pages for each section. Is
there
any
way to
do that?

So far, all I see is differnt ways to insert the same page numbers.
What
I'm trying to achieve is TWO seperate sets of page numbers
displayed.
One,
base on the section in which the page appears; and the second a
"control"
number that gives the page number based on the entire document.
I've
tried
the {PAGE} , but the page number displayed still depends on the
formatting
of
the page number in the header or footer. Maybe there's just no way
to
so
this. Has anybody got any other ideas?