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Wrong page numbers in Index
I have a Word document about 120 pages long, with Section Breaks, Page
Breaks, Headings, etc. The index I created has several mistakes in it regarding the page numbers: for some of the referenced words, the page number is wrong. For example, if the word is in page 92, in Index would appear as being in page 91. I did some research, and all I found is that I have to get ride of the Page Breaks (all of them ?? ) and then update the Field for Index, but if I do that, my whole document will be a mess and I will lose the proper flow of pages. Thank you in advance for any idea. Dodane |
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Well, generally trying to control page breaks in a 120 page document is a
fool's game. Section Breaks are necessary, yes, but just as you let Word control where a line wraps, you should let Word control where a page breaks. If you set your document up properly, you can easily tell Word things like "keep all titles with the next paragraph". If you are manually setting the page breaks, that's not the proper flow of pages. So why do you have all these manual page breaks? However, I'm surprised that just updating the Index field doesn't work anyhow--I don't quite see what the manual page breaks have to do with it. On 8/4/05 7:23 AM, "Dodane" wrote: I have a Word document about 120 pages long, with Section Breaks, Page Breaks, Headings, etc. The index I created has several mistakes in it regarding the page numbers: for some of the referenced words, the page number is wrong. For example, if the word is in page 92, in Index would appear as being in page 91. I did some research, and all I found is that I have to get ride of the Page Breaks (all of them ?? ) and then update the Field for Index, but if I do that, my whole document will be a mess and I will lose the proper flow of pages. Thank you in advance for any idea. Dodane -- Daiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/ MacWord Tips: http://www.word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/ What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ |
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If the manual page break has gotten inside the XE field, that could be an
issue. Another issue, however, is failure to hide the XE fields (which are Hidden text) before generating the index. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Daiya Mitchell" wrote in message .. . Well, generally trying to control page breaks in a 120 page document is a fool's game. Section Breaks are necessary, yes, but just as you let Word control where a line wraps, you should let Word control where a page breaks. If you set your document up properly, you can easily tell Word things like "keep all titles with the next paragraph". If you are manually setting the page breaks, that's not the proper flow of pages. So why do you have all these manual page breaks? However, I'm surprised that just updating the Index field doesn't work anyhow--I don't quite see what the manual page breaks have to do with it. On 8/4/05 7:23 AM, "Dodane" wrote: I have a Word document about 120 pages long, with Section Breaks, Page Breaks, Headings, etc. The index I created has several mistakes in it regarding the page numbers: for some of the referenced words, the page number is wrong. For example, if the word is in page 92, in Index would appear as being in page 91. I did some research, and all I found is that I have to get ride of the Page Breaks (all of them ?? ) and then update the Field for Index, but if I do that, my whole document will be a mess and I will lose the proper flow of pages. Thank you in advance for any idea. Dodane -- Daiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/ MacWord Tips: http://www.word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/ What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ |
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How can I search for the manual page break inside an XE filed ?
To hide the XE fields before I generated the index, I un-checked the Hidden Text and All under the Tools - Options - View. I also toggled the Show/Hide symbol. It seems that nothing works. Is there anything more I should look for ? Also, I deleted all the manual page brakes I could find. Might be some hidden ones somewhere ? I don't know what I can do more, but I really have to find a solution. ********************************* "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: If the manual page break has gotten inside the XE field, that could be an issue. Another issue, however, is failure to hide the XE fields (which are Hidden text) before generating the index. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Daiya Mitchell" wrote in message .. . Well, generally trying to control page breaks in a 120 page document is a fool's game. Section Breaks are necessary, yes, but just as you let Word control where a line wraps, you should let Word control where a page breaks. If you set your document up properly, you can easily tell Word things like "keep all titles with the next paragraph". If you are manually setting the page breaks, that's not the proper flow of pages. So why do you have all these manual page breaks? However, I'm surprised that just updating the Index field doesn't work anyhow--I don't quite see what the manual page breaks have to do with it. On 8/4/05 7:23 AM, "Dodane" wrote: I have a Word document about 120 pages long, with Section Breaks, Page Breaks, Headings, etc. The index I created has several mistakes in it regarding the page numbers: for some of the referenced words, the page number is wrong. For example, if the word is in page 92, in Index would appear as being in page 91. I did some research, and all I found is that I have to get ride of the Page Breaks (all of them ?? ) and then update the Field for Index, but if I do that, my whole document will be a mess and I will lose the proper flow of pages. Thank you in advance for any idea. Dodane -- Daiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/ MacWord Tips: http://www.word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/ What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ |
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I discovered the cause of the problem I have. Although this is a very
particular case, I think is good to mention the result I came up with: all the words that were listed in the Index as being on page-1 (91 instead of 92), are in a bulleted list that is the content of a table cell that spreads over the two pages. Therefore, Word recognizes those words as being part of that cell that starts on page 91, and counts the words as being in page 91 even though they are actually situated on page 92 (at bullet number 2, 3, etc). What I did, I split the table, I let only bullet number one be in page 91, then move the following bullets to a fresh new cell in page 92. That works fine. All the words are in the appropriate page in Index. What puzzles me now is: is this a correct method of corecting this type of problems ? Because if I have to do this, means that I have to check each single word in the Index, or at least all the cells that spread over pages. ********************************************** "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: If the manual page break has gotten inside the XE field, that could be an issue. Another issue, however, is failure to hide the XE fields (which are Hidden text) before generating the index. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Daiya Mitchell" wrote in message .. . Well, generally trying to control page breaks in a 120 page document is a fool's game. Section Breaks are necessary, yes, but just as you let Word control where a line wraps, you should let Word control where a page breaks. If you set your document up properly, you can easily tell Word things like "keep all titles with the next paragraph". If you are manually setting the page breaks, that's not the proper flow of pages. So why do you have all these manual page breaks? However, I'm surprised that just updating the Index field doesn't work anyhow--I don't quite see what the manual page breaks have to do with it. On 8/4/05 7:23 AM, "Dodane" wrote: I have a Word document about 120 pages long, with Section Breaks, Page Breaks, Headings, etc. The index I created has several mistakes in it regarding the page numbers: for some of the referenced words, the page number is wrong. For example, if the word is in page 92, in Index would appear as being in page 91. I did some research, and all I found is that I have to get ride of the Page Breaks (all of them ?? ) and then update the Field for Index, but if I do that, my whole document will be a mess and I will lose the proper flow of pages. Thank you in advance for any idea. Dodane -- Daiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/ MacWord Tips: http://www.word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/ What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ |
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Thanks for the feedback. This is an interesting development but not entirely
surprising. I think your workaround is probably the only easy way to deal with this. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Dodane" wrote in message ... I discovered the cause of the problem I have. Although this is a very particular case, I think is good to mention the result I came up with: all the words that were listed in the Index as being on page-1 (91 instead of 92), are in a bulleted list that is the content of a table cell that spreads over the two pages. Therefore, Word recognizes those words as being part of that cell that starts on page 91, and counts the words as being in page 91 even though they are actually situated on page 92 (at bullet number 2, 3, etc). What I did, I split the table, I let only bullet number one be in page 91, then move the following bullets to a fresh new cell in page 92. That works fine. All the words are in the appropriate page in Index. What puzzles me now is: is this a correct method of corecting this type of problems ? Because if I have to do this, means that I have to check each single word in the Index, or at least all the cells that spread over pages. ********************************************** "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: If the manual page break has gotten inside the XE field, that could be an issue. Another issue, however, is failure to hide the XE fields (which are Hidden text) before generating the index. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Daiya Mitchell" wrote in message .. . Well, generally trying to control page breaks in a 120 page document is a fool's game. Section Breaks are necessary, yes, but just as you let Word control where a line wraps, you should let Word control where a page breaks. If you set your document up properly, you can easily tell Word things like "keep all titles with the next paragraph". If you are manually setting the page breaks, that's not the proper flow of pages. So why do you have all these manual page breaks? However, I'm surprised that just updating the Index field doesn't work anyhow--I don't quite see what the manual page breaks have to do with it. On 8/4/05 7:23 AM, "Dodane" wrote: I have a Word document about 120 pages long, with Section Breaks, Page Breaks, Headings, etc. The index I created has several mistakes in it regarding the page numbers: for some of the referenced words, the page number is wrong. For example, if the word is in page 92, in Index would appear as being in page 91. I did some research, and all I found is that I have to get ride of the Page Breaks (all of them ?? ) and then update the Field for Index, but if I do that, my whole document will be a mess and I will lose the proper flow of pages. Thank you in advance for any idea. Dodane -- Daiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/ MacWord Tips: http://www.word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/ What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ |
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