You cannot copy and paste fields from a text message. You must enter it from
the keyboard using CTRL+F9 for each pair of brackets {}. Then press F9 to
update and ALT+F9 to toggle the display to show the result, if updating
didn't toggle it.
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mazile wrote:
I'm sorry ... I'm a complete dolt.
I don't need the table of contents, so I'm trying the second option.
When I copy and paste that "field construction" into the footer, all
I get on Print Preview is "{ IF { PAGE } 2 { = { PAGE } - 2 } }"
instead of the page number.
What am I leaving out? You have to spell this out carefully for me!!
Thanks,
Mazile
"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:
There are two ways to achieve this. If you want the page numbers to
appear correctly in a Table of Contents, have page 3 started by
inserting a Next Page Section Break at the end of the text on Page
2. Then in what is now Section 2 of you document, insert a { Page }
field where you want the page number to appear and then use the
Format Page Numbers dialalog to set the numbering to Start at 1,
rather than continue from previous Section.
If you do not need a Table of Contents, then you can dispense with
the Section Break and insert the following field construction where
you want the page number to appear:
{ IF { PAGE } 2 { = { PAGE } - 2 } }
You must use Ctrl+F9 to insert each pair of field delimiters and you
use Alt+F9 to toggle off their display.
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Hope this helps.
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"mazile" wrote in message
...
I am making a booklet. I do not want page numbers on the first two
pages. I
want to have 'page 1' start on the third page. I have tried
everything I can
think of and every suggestion I can find in the discussions.
Thanks for any help,
Mazile