[AlisonW]

Word 2007seems to have gone overboard on design. I'm delighted that the
header/footer is finally on the INSERT tab and you don't VIEW it any more.
But why can't I just put a plain page number in? Surely my first choice
should be for a simple page number (or X of Y), rather than having to scroll
through massive options with bars, circles, lines etc? And when you select
header/footer and click Page Number, you get the same option to go to
header/footer (no, I'm there already and I just want a really plain page
number -- I can format it myself thanks).

[Graham Mayor]

It seems Microsoft cannot please all of the people all of the time. However,
if you can format it for yourself, you can also manually insert a field
{Page}. You could even make an autocorrect of this for (say) #p which would
save you more menu trawling.

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AlisonW wrote:
Word 2007seems to have gone overboard on design. I'm delighted that
the header/footer is finally on the INSERT tab and you don't VIEW it
any more. But why can't I just put a plain page number in? Surely my
first choice should be for a simple page number (or X of Y), rather
than having to scroll through massive options with bars, circles,
lines etc? And when you select header/footer and click Page Number,
you get the same option to go to header/footer (no, I'm there already
and I just want a really plain page number -- I can format it myself
thanks).

[Beth Melton]

I believe the ability to insert just a page number field was added in
a later version.

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"AlisonW" wrote in message
...
Word 2007seems to have gone overboard on design. I'm delighted that
the
header/footer is finally on the INSERT tab and you don't VIEW it any
more.
But why can't I just put a plain page number in? Surely my first
choice
should be for a simple page number (or X of Y), rather than having
to scroll
through massive options with bars, circles, lines etc? And when you
select
header/footer and click Page Number, you get the same option to go
to
header/footer (no, I'm there already and I just want a really plain
page
number -- I can format it myself thanks).