Okay, let's say you have a section of front matter and then umpteen other
sections of regular text. If you already have these sections, then it's too
late. The trick is this: you insert a section break between the front matter
(Section 1, for the sake of example) and the main document (Section 2) and
set the numbering to restart at 1. Then you insert a section break to create
Section 3 and set the numbering to Continuous in that section. When you then
add Sections 4, 5, 6, etc., they will be Continuous. But if those sections
already exist, then you'll have to set the page format in each one
separately.
Note that "Same as Previous"/"Link to Previous" has no effect on numbering.
You can restart numbering without unlinking sections, and you can link
sections without affecting restarted numbering. Sorry!
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
"stickcc" wrote in message
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I am using the formula you described. I have a cover sheet with no page
number, then I have about 9 pages of front matter which has several
sections
in that and uses page i , page ii, page iii, etc., and then I start my
page
numbering on page 1 and use the formula to subtract the number of pages in
the front matter from the total number of pages in the document. Sometimes
I
need to adjust that number according to the length of the TOC and TOF I
have.
I'm not sure I understand which section to set as continuous and not sure
how to do that. Since the main document has a different footer, it isn't
Same
as Previous, but I've used Same as Previous in all the following sections.
I really appreciate both of your help as I created a template so other
people are trying to deal with this problem and I would like to fix it for
them.
My front matter
"Terry Farrell" wrote:
I understand now... you were using 'think-speak'! I believe Pamelia has
hit
the answer. If you are using a different front page and have reset the
next
section to start at Page 1, then the reset is being propagated all the
way.
Instead, set the page number field to { = { PAGE } - x } where x equals
the
number of pages in the front matter. If you need to automate this, you
can
add the SECTIONPAGES field to the first (un-numbered) section, bookmark
it
and then subtract the Bookmark result.
Terry
"stickcc" wrote in message
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Sorry - guess I thought everyone could read my mind.
I want each section to continue numbering not start at 1 at the
beginning
of
each section.
My document uses the {PAGE} field but when I add a section break, new
page,
it starts over at 1.
Hope that makes sense.
"Terry Farrell" wrote:
I'm not sure what you want because what you wrote is a little
ambiguous.
But
if you want to start each section with page 1, instead of inserting
the {
PAGE } field, use the { SECTIONPAGES } field. The { PAGE } field will
be
continuous by default .
--
Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP
"stickcc" wrote in message
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Is there an easy way to default to continue numbering when i add a
new
section? Since that is the option that I would use most, I would
prefer
that
to starting at page 1 on each new section and then I have to
re-format
the
number to continue from previous.