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Page Change numbers in footer
I am looking for a way to add unique page change numbers in a footer that
consists of pages all in one section. Some pages need to be tagged "change 1", others "change 2", and so on. I've seen an example of different text in headers and footers using fields such as seq, but this requires "reading" some text that is already on the current page. I need to add a unique change number on each page of the document in the footer only. I don't want to use bookmarks, because they can be too easily deleted. Surely this is not an unusual request, so I'm hoping someone has an elegant solution! Thanks, Jim S. |
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Have you considered using text boxes? For each page, you would have to
create a border-less text box, anchor it to the top paragraph, and drag it below the bottom margin (so it seems to be in the footer). Type the required data into each text box. For more ways to insert text in the margin, see http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/MarginalText.htm -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "JimS" wrote in message ... I am looking for a way to add unique page change numbers in a footer that consists of pages all in one section. Some pages need to be tagged "change 1", others "change 2", and so on. I've seen an example of different text in headers and footers using fields such as seq, but this requires "reading" some text that is already on the current page. I need to add a unique change number on each page of the document in the footer only. I don't want to use bookmarks, because they can be too easily deleted. Surely this is not an unusual request, so I'm hoping someone has an elegant solution! Thanks, Jim S. |
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Thanks, Stefan, but I tried this. It works well to use text boxes or frames
for this purpose, but once someone inserts additional text on the page, the anchor to the text box or frame may move to the next page, thereby moving the frame or text box to the next page. I need it to "anchor" itself to the page it is created on. Even if I select "Relative to" for both horizontal and vertical position and deselect the "Move with text" checkbox, the text box or frame will move to the next page as explained above. "Stefan Blom" wrote: Have you considered using text boxes? For each page, you would have to create a border-less text box, anchor it to the top paragraph, and drag it below the bottom margin (so it seems to be in the footer). Type the required data into each text box. For more ways to insert text in the margin, see http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/MarginalText.htm -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "JimS" wrote in message ... I am looking for a way to add unique page change numbers in a footer that consists of pages all in one section. Some pages need to be tagged "change 1", others "change 2", and so on. I've seen an example of different text in headers and footers using fields such as seq, but this requires "reading" some text that is already on the current page. I need to add a unique change number on each page of the document in the footer only. I don't want to use bookmarks, because they can be too easily deleted. Surely this is not an unusual request, so I'm hoping someone has an elegant solution! Thanks, Jim S. |
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A different approach is to insert a section break at the end of each
page. That way, you can anchor the text box to the header paragraph, and it will definitely not move. Note, however, that the section breaks will "isolate" the pages; you can't get text to flow from one section to the next. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "JimS" wrote in message ... Thanks, Stefan, but I tried this. It works well to use text boxes or frames for this purpose, but once someone inserts additional text on the page, the anchor to the text box or frame may move to the next page, thereby moving the frame or text box to the next page. I need it to "anchor" itself to the page it is created on. Even if I select "Relative to" for both horizontal and vertical position and deselect the "Move with text" checkbox, the text box or frame will move to the next page as explained above. "Stefan Blom" wrote: Have you considered using text boxes? For each page, you would have to create a border-less text box, anchor it to the top paragraph, and drag it below the bottom margin (so it seems to be in the footer). Type the required data into each text box. For more ways to insert text in the margin, see http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/MarginalText.htm -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "JimS" wrote in message ... I am looking for a way to add unique page change numbers in a footer that consists of pages all in one section. Some pages need to be tagged "change 1", others "change 2", and so on. I've seen an example of different text in headers and footers using fields such as seq, but this requires "reading" some text that is already on the current page. I need to add a unique change number on each page of the document in the footer only. I don't want to use bookmarks, because they can be too easily deleted. Surely this is not an unusual request, so I'm hoping someone has an elegant solution! Thanks, Jim S. |
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