I have been reading these posts, the word.mvps.org site, etc. and cannot
figure out my problem. I have a document with two sections. The first
section has a footer containing "Page 1 of 6", and the second section has a
blank footer. I have been able to get the second section to appear blank,
BUT my numbering in the first section shows "Page 1 of 7" instead of 6. I
only want it to count the pages in the first section, but it's counting the
2nd section as page 7.
Help!

Press Alt+F9 to display field codes, change the { NUMPAGES } field in
the footer to a { SECTIONPAGES } field, and press Alt+F9 again to
display field results.

monkey1964 wrote:
I have been reading these posts, the word.mvps.org site, etc. and cannot
figure out my problem. I have a document with two sections. The first
section has a footer containing "Page 1 of 6", and the second section has a
blank footer. I have been able to get the second section to appear blank,
BUT my numbering in the first section shows "Page 1 of 7" instead of 6. I
only want it to count the pages in the first section, but it's counting the
2nd section as page 7.
Help!

Garfield-n-odie, that worked! Thanks so much.

"garfield-n-odie" wrote:

Press Alt+F9 to display field codes, change the { NUMPAGES } field in
the footer to a { SECTIONPAGES } field, and press Alt+F9 again to
display field results.

monkey1964 wrote:
I have been reading these posts, the word.mvps.org site, etc. and cannot
figure out my problem. I have a document with two sections. The first
section has a footer containing "Page 1 of 6", and the second section has a
blank footer. I have been able to get the second section to appear blank,
BUT my numbering in the first section shows "Page 1 of 7" instead of 6. I
only want it to count the pages in the first section, but it's counting the
2nd section as page 7.
Help!

you're welcome, and thanks for the feedback :-)

monkey1964 wrote:

Garfield-n-odie, that worked! Thanks so much.

"garfield-n-odie" wrote:


Press Alt+F9 to display field codes, change the { NUMPAGES } field in
the footer to a { SECTIONPAGES } field, and press Alt+F9 again to
display field results.

monkey1964 wrote:

I have been reading these posts, the word.mvps.org site, etc. and cannot
figure out my problem. I have a document with two sections. The first
section has a footer containing "Page 1 of 6", and the second section has a
blank footer. I have been able to get the second section to appear blank,
BUT my numbering in the first section shows "Page 1 of 7" instead of 6. I
only want it to count the pages in the first section, but it's counting the
2nd section as page 7.
Help!

[songinthedark]

I did what you suggested but the SectionPages field keeps defaulting to a
total page count of 1 instead of 2. So my footers read "S1 of S1, S2 of S1".
I've updated the fields but it still comes out the same way.
Any suggestions?

"garfield-n-odie" wrote:

Press Alt+F9 to display field codes, change the { NUMPAGES } field in
the footer to a { SECTIONPAGES } field, and press Alt+F9 again to
display field results.

monkey1964 wrote:
I have been reading these posts, the word.mvps.org site, etc. and cannot
figure out my problem. I have a document with two sections. The first
section has a footer containing "Page 1 of 6", and the second section has a
blank footer. I have been able to get the second section to appear blank,
BUT my numbering in the first section shows "Page 1 of 7" instead of 6. I
only want it to count the pages in the first section, but it's counting the
2nd section as page 7.
Help!

[Stefan Blom]

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

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"songinthedark" wrote in message
...
I did what you suggested but the SectionPages field keeps defaulting to a
total page count of 1 instead of 2. So my footers read "S1 of S1, S2 of
S1".
I've updated the fields but it still comes out the same way.
Any suggestions?

"garfield-n-odie" wrote:

Press Alt+F9 to display field codes, change the { NUMPAGES } field in
the footer to a { SECTIONPAGES } field, and press Alt+F9 again to
display field results.

monkey1964 wrote:
I have been reading these posts, the word.mvps.org site, etc. and
cannot
figure out my problem. I have a document with two sections. The first
section has a footer containing "Page 1 of 6", and the second section
has a
blank footer. I have been able to get the second section to appear
blank,
BUT my numbering in the first section shows "Page 1 of 7" instead of
6. I
only want it to count the pages in the first section, but it's counting
the
2nd section as page 7.
Help!

[songinthedark]

Thanks. That problem is fixed.
I have another issue and I don't know if or how it can be done.
Example: I have a document with 19 pages with a need to be used for
different purposes.
There are two pages in section 1 with page numbering "X of 19".
There are 4 pages in section 2 with page numbering based on it's own section
pages "SX of S4".
Sections 3-5 have the remainder of the pages numbered like section 1 "X of
19".
I would like to be able to have sections 1 and 3-5 have the page numbering
say X of 15. The pages in section 2 will eventually be pulled out to be a
stand alone document. Sections 1, 3-5 will also remain together as a stand
alone document. And thirdly all sections (1-5) will remain together as a
document for a third purpose.
Is this possible? If so, how?


"Stefan Blom" wrote:

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

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"songinthedark" wrote in message
...
I did what you suggested but the SectionPages field keeps defaulting to a
total page count of 1 instead of 2. So my footers read "S1 of S1, S2 of
S1".
I've updated the fields but it still comes out the same way.
Any suggestions?

"garfield-n-odie" wrote:

Press Alt+F9 to display field codes, change the { NUMPAGES } field in
the footer to a { SECTIONPAGES } field, and press Alt+F9 again to
display field results.

monkey1964 wrote:
I have been reading these posts, the word.mvps.org site, etc. and
cannot
figure out my problem. I have a document with two sections. The first
section has a footer containing "Page 1 of 6", and the second section
has a
blank footer. I have been able to get the second section to appear
blank,
BUT my numbering in the first section shows "Page 1 of 7" instead of
6. I
only want it to count the pages in the first section, but it's counting
the
2nd section as page 7.
Help!

[songinthedark]

"songinthedark" wrote:

Thanks. That problem is fixed.
I have another issue and I don't know if or how it can be done.
I have section 2 page numbering (Synopsis) set differently from the rest of the document so that it can be a standalone document as needed. I used SECTION PAGES field code to set it up with the numbering SX of SX.
Can I set up the Table of Contents page number for this section to include
this label "S"?
Currently it says:
1. Signature Page.....2
2. Synopsis..............1
3. ToC.....................3

I want it to say:
1. Signature Page.....2
2. Synopsis..............S1
3. ToC.....................3



"Stefan Blom" wrote:

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

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"songinthedark" wrote in message
...
I did what you suggested but the SectionPages field keeps defaulting to a
total page count of 1 instead of 2. So my footers read "S1 of S1, S2 of
S1".
I've updated the fields but it still comes out the same way.
Any suggestions?

"garfield-n-odie" wrote:

Press Alt+F9 to display field codes, change the { NUMPAGES } field in
the footer to a { SECTIONPAGES } field, and press Alt+F9 again to
display field results.

monkey1964 wrote:
I have been reading these posts, the word.mvps.org site, etc. and
cannot
figure out my problem. I have a document with two sections. The first
section has a footer containing "Page 1 of 6", and the second section
has a
blank footer. I have been able to get the second section to appear
blank,
BUT my numbering in the first section shows "Page 1 of 7" instead of
6. I
only want it to count the pages in the first section, but it's counting
the
2nd section as page 7.
Help!

[perplexed]

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!!

This worked and was such a simple fix. I'd read other similar posts and the
suggestions didn't work. You are "MY HERO"!

"garfield-n-odie" wrote:

Press Alt+F9 to display field codes, change the { NUMPAGES } field in
the footer to a { SECTIONPAGES } field, and press Alt+F9 again to
display field results.

monkey1964 wrote:
I have been reading these posts, the word.mvps.org site, etc. and cannot
figure out my problem. I have a document with two sections. The first
section has a footer containing "Page 1 of 6", and the second section has a
blank footer. I have been able to get the second section to appear blank,
BUT my numbering in the first section shows "Page 1 of 7" instead of 6. I
only want it to count the pages in the first section, but it's counting the
2nd section as page 7.
Help!

[perplexed]

New problem. . .
This fixed the problem so that I get page x of y for each separate section
IF I print one-sided pages; however, when I ask for double sided pages, it
prints out page x of x again. This happens no matter which printer I send it
to. Any thoughts?

"Perplexed" wrote:

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!!

This worked and was such a simple fix. I'd read other similar posts and the
suggestions didn't work. You are "MY HERO"!

"garfield-n-odie" wrote:

Press Alt+F9 to display field codes, change the { NUMPAGES } field in
the footer to a { SECTIONPAGES } field, and press Alt+F9 again to
display field results.

monkey1964 wrote:
I have been reading these posts, the word.mvps.org site, etc. and cannot
figure out my problem. I have a document with two sections. The first
section has a footer containing "Page 1 of 6", and the second section has a
blank footer. I have been able to get the second section to appear blank,
BUT my numbering in the first section shows "Page 1 of 7" instead of 6. I
only want it to count the pages in the first section, but it's counting the
2nd section as page 7.
Help!