David -
What I would do to have each of your sections have the proper paging is use
the following codes:
Page { Page } of { SectionPages } This will give you page 1 of 20 (assuming
twenty pages in this section).
To insert it:
Place your cursor in your footer section.
Type Page
Press CTRL+F9 to insert {} (which is field braces)
Place your cursor between the braces and type Page
Place your cursor to the right of the final brace and type of
Press CTRL+F9 to insert another set of field braces
Place your curser between the braces and type SectionPages
Select the entire paragraph and press F9 to update the fields.
Let me know if that is not what you want. (You may need to format the
footer to start at page 1)
--
Dawn Crosier
Microsoft MVP
"Education Lasts a Lifetime"
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"david" wrote in message
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I am using the section field. Should I not use the section field for the
first section? I think I need to because the first two pages are the
table
of contents and table of figures, etc. When I inserted the page numbers I
did use the include chapter number option. When I view the details of the
page, I don't see anything unusual and the first heading 1 label is in the
right place. The heading number is section 2 but I clicked on it to
'restart
numbering' and it shows section 1. I tried to manually change the heading
number to 1 but it doesn't stick.
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
If you are using the SECTION field, then 2 is correct, since the section
after the first section break IS Section 2.
If you've used "Include chapter number" and applied autonumbering to the
heading style that's being picked up by the page number, then this is a
different issue. Sometimes an empty paragraph before the heading
(possibly
even before the section break) will pick up the numbering format and be
counted as the first numbered heading. If your heading is numbered, does
the
actual h heading numbering start with 1 or 2?
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"david" wrote in message
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I have a problem with my sections. I have a report with about 6
sections
and
a table of contents in the beginning. I put my first section break
after
the
table of contents, and I want the first section and each section after
that
to have page numbers with both the section and page number, but the
first
section page numbers always say page 2-1 instead of page 1-1. The
second
section and subsequent sections read correctly. I can't figure out why
the
page numbers and captions don't read correctly because I changed the
format
in the bullets menu to start at Section 1. Anyways, a little help
would
be
great.