"Bob Buckland ?:-)" wrote in message
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Hi Ray,
Stefan's reply suggested using AutoText as the gallery choice. You might
also consider using the Footer gallery choice. Once
you've created a footer sample that has text you like, such as both the
Page an NumPage fields in a footer, select it that text in
the footer, choose the 'Footer' gallery from the Header & Footer Tools
ribbon and then 'Save Selection' to make it a reusable tool
for the footer. It's then also available in Insert=Footer ribbon and
will add the footer without having to be in the footer.
Bob,
That's a good idea. One might actually say it's a *natural* idea, given the
improvements of the AutoText feature in Word 2007.
Apparently, since I overlooked this possibility, I'm still thinking in terms
of Word 97-2003. :-)
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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP
FWIW, in prior versionsmany folks, I've found thought it was too much work
to use the page number and total page number fields in
footers along with typing in the Page:{field here} and of{field here} and
to get them properly styled and would basically do what
you did as a workaround here, just copy from another document. That's
sort of what the gallery is, giving folks a set of readily
usable footers without the need for using a separate document 
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"Ray Mitchell" wrote in message
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Thanks Stefan,
I was afraid of that. ...sounds like yet another giant step backwards
for Mircosoft on this one - removing a very useful feature
or making it very difficult to use.
Thanks,
Ray
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Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP
*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*