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Numbering Pages in A Large Document Split Across Multiple Files
I have a large Microsoft Word 2003 document that will grow beyond the 32Mb
limit. Because of the need to alternate between portrait and landscape printing and the need change the contents of headers and footers, the document consists of over 100 different sections. In order to minimize the possibility of corruption, none of the headers or footers are linked to their previous section. I wish to split the document into multiple Microsoft Word files, yet I wish to maintain the X of Y page numbering so that when I print the multiple files and stack the pages, it appears as if it is a single contiguous document. Is there a way to define some sort of a variable at the start of each file so that I can add the variable's content to the NumPages field in the footer of each section and in a table of contents? As the document grows, I wish to reduce the amount of work associated with updating the page count to one instance per file instead of one instance per section. I am comfortable using many of the advance features of Word, but find myself over my head when it comes to VBA programming, etc. |
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Numbering Pages in A Large Document Split Across Multiple Files
Hi George
CuriousGeorge wrote: I have a large Microsoft Word 2003 document that will grow beyond the 32Mb limit. That's a whole lot. The technical barrier for the raw-text amount (used to be 32 MByte) has been raised somewhere between Word 2000 and Word 2003; still, if that's raw text, sounds like a telephone book! :-) Because of the need to alternate between portrait and landscape printing and the need change the contents of headers and footers, the document consists of over 100 different sections. In order to minimize the possibility of corruption, none of the headers or footers are linked to their previous section. I wish to split the document into multiple Microsoft Word files, yet I wish to maintain the X of Y page numbering so that when I print the multiple files and stack the pages, it appears as if it is a single contiguous document. Is there a way to define some sort of a variable at the start of each file so that I can add the variable's content to the NumPages field in the footer of each section and in a table of contents? As the document grows, I wish to reduce the amount of work associated with updating the page count to one instance per file instead of one instance per section. I am comfortable using many of the advance features of Word, but find myself over my head when it comes to VBA programming, etc. For that project, you should consider hiring a VBA/Word expert. Concerning the page numbering: you will be in need of a mechanism to set the starting page number of each document (so that it numbers through); and you will need to use something different from NUMPAGES (since you cannot trick Word into a different number there). Writing the total page number into a custom document property and referencing this instead comes to mind here. For starters, see the following thread: Continuous Page Numbering (by Jonathan West) http://groups.google.ch/group/micros...1022609?hl=de& Greetinx Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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