[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If every page is a section, I would guess the document was at some point
imported from WordPerfect. I'd be willing to bet you don't actually *need*
all those section breaks. Make a copy of the document and see what happens
if you search for ^b and replace with nothing (to be on the safe side, you
could replace with ^m--a manual page break--but I wouldn't advise it). Once
the whole document is a single section, then you could go back and restore
section breaks where they're absolutely needed (*after* inserting the page
number).

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Undercover Lawyer" wrote in
message ...
I read the information you linked to Suzanne, and information it linked to,
and what I've learned is that I'm screwed.

The old version of this document in the previous version of Word did have
page numbering on all pages. It disappeared when I imported the doc to
Word
7.

Now, all of the footers are "unlinked". I have 150 individual little
spaces
at the bottom of 150 pages (which MS calls "sections").

The only way to re-link the footers is to click into each of the 150 of
them, and change the "same as previous" toggle button. Then my page
numbers
will run through the whole document from the beginning.

Of course, that doesn't save any time from clicking into each of the 150
footers and just typing the page number.

Moral of the story? I see two of them: 1) stick with the old version of
Word; 2) go Mac.

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http://www.undercoverlawyer.com


"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
When you insert a page number (or any other header/footer content),
you're
entering it in a specific header/footer and sometimes only in a specific
section. If you have more than one section, and the headers/footers in
those
sections are unlinked, then any content you insert in Section 1 will not
show up in Section 2.