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page numbers greyed out
MSWord 97: When I try to INSERT: PAGE NUMBERS, nothing happens. The
numbers are there, but they're greyed out, in VIEW: PAGE LAYOUT. In VIEW: NORMAL they don't show at all. When I go to VIEW: HEADERS AND FOOTERS, and swich to FOOTERS, the page number comes up but everything else is greyed out. When I press CTL-F9, nothing happens. I put a page break in the document, but both sides' page numbers stayed grey. In FILE: PRINT PREVIEW, they work fine, but the next time I open the file I'm in VIEW; NORMAL again. I reloaded Word97. I'm afraid to UNINSTALL Word97, this document has an enormous amount of formatting, it has to be just so, and I question my ability to redo it all correctly again. Other files work fine. Everything is in the Normal.dot template. Please help. |
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page numbers greyed out
Thanks, I see you worked hard for me. but none of it helps. I can't
delete the frame of the footer, there isn't any print layout, page numbers work fine in fileprint preview, but I loose it when I save it. My other files have no problem with page numbers, and they work fine electronically and in printing. I can't send an editor a pdf file any more than I can send him a brick. And he needs page numbers to communicate with me. thanks for trying tho, I see nobody else did. |
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Print View is the post-Word 97 term for page layout view.
When you print, then, I assume that your page numbers print. Your page numbers disappear when you save your document? When you reopen and go into page layout view they are gone? They don't print? -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "tomp" wrote in message oups.com... Thanks, I see you worked hard for me. but none of it helps. I can't delete the frame of the footer, there isn't any print layout, page numbers work fine in fileprint preview, but I loose it when I save it. My other files have no problem with page numbers, and they work fine electronically and in printing. I can't send an editor a pdf file any more than I can send him a brick. And he needs page numbers to communicate with me. thanks for trying tho, I see nobody else did. |
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page numbers greyed out
yes. page numbers print fine. They are greyed out in page layout
where they used to be fine. They're fine in page layout in all my other files. They are ok in print preview, but I lose that, it shifts to page layout, when I save and re-open. No problem printing, but my editors mostly dont' print, they look at the file on screen and pass back and for th comments etc. I can send them greyed out page numbers, I presume they can read them, but I'd sure rather not. I'm writing for law review editors and they don't have a lot of experience, I want to make it as easy as I can for them. They're amateurs, they don't have any good way of determining whether I know what I'm doing, and my inability to control my word processor suggests maybe I don't know my subject so well either. At best it shows my standards are low, and they have to trust me. . . . I have to go out of town, back Monday. Thanks again |
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I don't know how you got them to show up any different way in the past.
There is no way that I know of to get dynamic page numbers (which change as the page number changes) to show up black on screen when the body of the document is also black. They show up this way in print preview because that is intended to mimic what will be printed. They don't display at all in normal view, in page layout view (now called print view) they show up as greyed out because they are in the background, not part of what you are editing on screen. If your law review editors want articles in Word format, they know this. Start worrying about your content. If you need to use Word extensively, I would suggest you invest some time learning it systematically, as you have been learning law systematically. A good place to start is in my signature line. Another is Shauna Kelly's site. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "tomp" wrote in message oups.com... yes. page numbers print fine. They are greyed out in page layout where they used to be fine. They're fine in page layout in all my other files. They are ok in print preview, but I lose that, it shifts to page layout, when I save and re-open. No problem printing, but my editors mostly dont' print, they look at the file on screen and pass back and for th comments etc. I can send them greyed out page numbers, I presume they can read them, but I'd sure rather not. I'm writing for law review editors and they don't have a lot of experience, I want to make it as easy as I can for them. They're amateurs, they don't have any good way of determining whether I know what I'm doing, and my inability to control my word processor suggests maybe I don't know my subject so well either. At best it shows my standards are low, and they have to trust me. . . . I have to go out of town, back Monday. Thanks again |
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Ok, I'll learn to live with it. But I'm not wholly convinced. Anyhow
I know it's the best I can do. thanks tom porter |
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