[CuriousGeorge]

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.