[D. Liske]

Hi macropod,

That is exactly what I needed. Funny thing is, I actually tried that
earlier today and kept on getting a syntax error when I pressed alt+F9. I
even had it happen when I saw your answer and tried it again. I'm not sure I
had spaces when I shouldn't have, or visa versa. In any event, it's working
now. Thanks to you and Suzanne for the tips. Regards.

David Liske

"macropod" wrote:

Hi David,

If the only time the two parts of your document are together is at the time of
stapling (i.e. you don't merge them into the one file), the formula field
coding for the 'Y' is:
{={NUMPAGES}+2}

Cheers

--
macropod
[MVP - Microsoft Word]


"D. Liske" wrote in message
...
| Hi macropod,
|
| I'm thinking that based upon your answer, I didn't write my problem clearly
| enough. But, then again, maybe you answered it, and I just don't understand
| it. So bear with me, as I try to clarify.
|
| Basically what I do is take two cover pages from another application that
| are already numbered Pages 1 and 2. The two pages are a constant. Then
| those pages are "married" to my report narrative (my Word doc), and the
whole
| package is stapled together. Since the first two pages are numbered, my
| issue is how to do the X of Y numbering on my word document to accurately
| reflect the pages in the report. I don't need the X to start at page 1, as
| it will always be page 3. That has not been the tough part. It is the Y
| that has caused the problem, as I have to account for the first two,
non-Word
| pages in the total. And, since the narrative is a variable, there won't
| always be the same number of pages in that section.
|
| Therefore, referring back to my example, if my Word narrative is three
| pages, then the desired X of Y would be 3 of 5, 4 of 5, 5 of 5. Remember, I
| am adding pages 1 and 2 to the package and stapling them together which
| brings me to the 5 total pages (Y).
|
| Of course, the easy solutions a
|
| -Don't use X of Y numbering
| -Use plain old X of Y, start my narrative on page 3 of the document, print
| from page 3 to the last page, or print the entire document and just discard
| pages 1 and 2.
|
| I don't know if I've made things more clear or more confusing. But, I
| appreciate your time and your response. Regards.
|
| David Liske
|
|
| "macropod" wrote:
|
| Hi David,
|
| To get your Page 'X of Y' numbering to start at 1 for the 'X' portion,
it's
| best to insert a 'next page' Section break before that page. Then you need
to:
| .. select the 'X' portion of the Page 'X of Y' numbering
| .. use |Insert|Page Numbers|Format, then click 'Start at' and input '1',
then
| click 'OK', 'OK'.
|
| If you then want the 'Y' portion of the numbering to count only the
numbered
| pages, then you need to either:
| .. use a {SECTIONPAGES} field instead of the {NUMPAGES} field. This will
only
| work if your document has only two Sections; or
| .. use a formula field to deduct the number of unnumbered pages from the
| overall page count. This could be coded as {={NUMPAGES}-2}, where '2' is
the
| number of unnumbered pages. To create such a field, press Ctrl-F9 twice to
| create a pair of nested fields, which will be designated by two pairs of
field
| braces (i.e '{ { } }'), then type in the coding indicated so that you end
up
| with {={NUMPAGES}-2}. Then press F9 to update.
| Fancier coding can be used to deal with an unnumbered section in which the
| number of pages tends to vary. Post back if this is an issue for you.
|
| Cheers
|
|
| --
| macropod
| [MVP - Microsoft Word]
|
|