[Stefan Blom[_3_]]

Into the header of your first section, insert this field:

{ SET pagecount1 { SECTIONPAGES } }.

In the section where you have Page X of Y, replace Y, which is a NUMPAGES field,
with

{ = { NUMPAGES} - { REF pagecount1 } }.

To insert each pair of field delimiters, { }, press Ctrl+F9. Type the codes as
shown. To update the field(s) in the selection, press F9. Use Alt+F9 to
show/hide field codes in the document.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP



"Martha V." wrote in message
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I have a large document. It contains only three sections. The first section
is comprised of three pages, the Title Page and the TOC. The second section
is all of the chapters of content, and finally the third section is the
Appendix. The first section does not contain page numbers in the footer. The
second and third sections do contain page numbers in the footer in the
following format "page x of y". I restarted the page numbers on page 4 (at
the beginning of section 2). It worked for the "x" number which begins on
page 1. However, the second number, "y" in the example above, did not restart
and still counts all pages from the title page through the end of the
document. I think I've seen this happen before several years ago, but I
cannot remember how I fixed it at the time.

I am using MS Word 2007. This document was originally a MS Word 2003 doc and
was converted to the MS Word 2007 format.
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Martha V.