Yes, Word has made a few advances since DOS 5.5. That's probably the first
version I used, too, as it was about that time period, but v. 2.0 for
Windows was the first version I owned, and I'm constantly surprised by how
many features still exist virtually unchanged from that version. Many of the
dramatic changes have been in the way the features are accessed (many have
acquired a "front end" to make them easier to use).
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
"alex gross" wrote in message
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Thanks, MVP Herb! I mentoioned in my earlier message that I'm using Word
2003 but I guess I ought to have repeated it. As I just said to Suzanne,
I think I may now have at least this problem licked.
I am very grateful to this group and its helpful MVPs. I haven't really
gone that deeply into Word since DOS Version 5.5 around 1991, which I got
for free from being a beta tester. So I have a lot left to learn and may
need to ask for help again.
Very best wishes!
alex
"Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote in message
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A precise solution would be much easier to provide if we knew which
version of Word you're using. Otherwise, only general prescriptions are
possible.
The concept in all recent versions of Word is "document templates", not
style sheets. Whether you know it or not, all Word documents are based on
templates. If you don't specify one in particular, then your documents
are based on Normal.dot (Normal.dotm in Word 2007).
And--unless you override it somehow--you are using the styles indicated
by Suzanne. And, you are faced with two levels of solution to your
problem. If you just want a solution for the current document, you can
modify the styles used in that document or use brute force direct
formatting. If you want a solution for all future documents based on that
template, you can modify the styles in the template you are using (which
is probably normal.dot or normal.dotm, since you aren't even aware that
you're using a template).
If you're seeing the number 2 on every left handed page in the book...
does the footer use a page field code, or are you using the actual number
2?
--
Herb Tyson MS MVP
Author of the Word 2007 Bible
Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
Web: http://www.herbtyson.com
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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It's not a question of using Style Sheets (there's no such thing in
Word) but of using styles, and by default the footer in Word is in
Footer style, the header in Header style, and the Page Number in Page
Number style (unless you have explicitly applied a different style), so
modifying the styles is still the way to go.
--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
"alex gross" wrote in message
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Thanks, Suzanne, if I understand you correctly I think you are assuming
that I have been using a Style Sheet & would therefore only need to
make a minor change in it to get my page numbers straight.
Problem is, I am not using a Style Sheet, & at this point I would
really not want to go back all the way to the beginning and start using
one.
I used to love Style Sheets back in the days of Word for DOS & I
remember enjoying myself when I would explain how to use them to
others. But there aren't really that many styles involved in writing
this book, & I seem to have managed to get along so far without them.
Style Sheets also seem to have turned into something harder to use than
in Word for DOS, and in his book Perfect Pages Aaron Shepard refers to
them as being "as much a curse as a blessing."
So if all else fails, I will go back and try to wade through all the
multiple pages of advice about inserting page numbers & probably end up
blundering my way through to a solution, since I had it right once,
before I tried to change the format.
But in the meantime, is there.some simple sequcnce of steps you can
recommend to get my left-right-aligned even-&-odd 12 point Georgia page
numbers working correctly, without using a Style Sheet?
All the very best!
alex
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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Instead of changing the PAGE fields manually, modify the Footer
paragraph style or (if you want only the page numbers changed while
the rest of the footer stays 10-point) the Page Number character
style.
--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
"alex gross" wrote in message
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Hello again, Suzanne, I've been doing a lot of work, it looked for a
while as though I had all the page numbers working in the footers, so
I went on to entering all my Chapter names in the headers. Then I
came back and decided I want my page numbers to be 12 pt instead of
10 pt (which I guess may be your default), so I opened the right-page
odd-number footer and reformatted the number "1." That seemed to
work alright, so I then went to the left-page even-number footer and
tried to change "2" the same way.
It didn't work, or rather it did work, but now I have the number 2 on
every left-hand page in the 700 pages of this book. The right-hand
pages seem to be numbered correctly.
I've looked at some of the extensive material on page numbers under
your Help system but so far can't seem to find anything to cover
this.
Once again, I suspect there's a simple answer, but I just can't
figure it out.
So once again I'd be most grateful for your help...
Thanks in advance!
alex