[Henk57[_66_]]

Jo:
I never use indexes, so I can only guess here. Could it be that in
your example "61" has the same section as the previous entry (5)? In
that case it ONLY shows the section number if it differs from the
previous entry....

Stefan Blom;2322067 Wrote:
Apparently, Word gets confused when a new section starts within the
page.
You can change the type of section in the Page Setup dialog box, Layout
tab.

Also, note that Next page section breaks are recommended in the article
at
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/numbering/chapternumber.htm.

To display the Page Setup dialog box:

- File | Page Setup. (Word 2003)

- Click the Page Layout tab of the ribbon. In the Page Setup group,
click
the dialog box launcher button. (Word 2007)

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"Jo" wrote in message
...-
Okay, seems the experts here are as stumped by this as I am. I'm
starting
to
find some patterns to this, so I'm hoping it might bring some ideas.
It
seems
to have something to do with starting a new section on the same page.
The
XE
markers that occur in the next section don't seem to pick up the
chapter
number. When I move the XE fields to the part of the page before the
section
change, it works fine (that is, the chapter numbers appear in the
index
along
with the page numbers).

Is there any way to "remind" Word what the chapter number is when a
new
section is created? From what I know about sections, they're a bit of
a
nightmare.

Jo

"Jo" wrote:
-
I'm creating an index for a manual that has several chapters. The
client
wants the page numbers to display as X-y where "X" is the chapter
number
and
"y" is the page number within that chapter. The page numbers in the
footers
of each page are formatted this way (by using "format page number"
and
selecting "include page number"). The index also picks up this X-y
format;
for example: "widgets, 3-12" if "widgets" is marked in chapter 3,
page
12.

This works MOST of the time. The problem is that the index is picking
up
the
chapter numbers in most cases but mysteriously drops them (leaving
only
the
page number within that chapter) in other cases. So I'll wind up
with,
for
example: "widgets, 3-12, 5-15, 61, 8-3". On page 61 (in the example),
the
page number in the page footer is showing with the chapter number, as
it
should; same with the preceeding and subsequent pages. So I'm baffled
why
it's catching some chapter numbers but dropping others. Updating the
index
does not resolve the problem.

I did discover earlier today that some of the chapter numbers had
been
dropped in SOME of the page footers (probably because I had to insert
a
replacement chapter in a copy-and-paste), but I went through and
fixed
these.
This corrected a few of the index references, but not all of them.
I've
tried
deleting the XE marker and re-marking it, but it doesn't fix the
problem.

Any ideas? I couldn't find anything like this in a search of this
newsgroup
or the Web at large. Thanks in advance for the help!

Jo--




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Henk57