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page number positioning and format
I'm having some issues with page number I'm hoping someone can help me with.
Using the insert page number, I've put page numbers at the button, centre of the page including chapter numbers based on heading1, which is numbered A, B, C... so I get page numbers that look like "A-12" or "C-47". The page setup has footer margin set to 0.5". At first the page numbers were not quite centred on the page. After some experimenting I found that the page number style had inherited the Normal style's attributes of a first line indent of 0.5" and double spacing so that the frame that holds the page number in the footer has an extra 0.5" of blank space to the left of the page number and an extra line's height of blank space below it. Changing the text's paragraph formatting to single space, no first line indent causes the frame to collapse to the correct size just large enough to hold the text and properly centred. However, when I printed to the file to an PDF and measured the distance from the page number to the bottom of the page, it was 0.7" rather than 0.5". This is problematic since the final PDF file will incorporate pages created in different applications, and I don't want the page numbers jumping around as you flip through the pages. So I need to be able to control exactly where the page number will be. What's really strange, though, is I have another document that has the exact same margin settings and also a bottom, centred page number. I've checked in the case of that document the frame size matches the text size for the page number. However, when it prints the page numbers are 0.5" from the bottom of the page. Well, around 0.52", actually, but I'm guessing the bottom of the text is 0.5", whereas the baseline is slightly higher. If I put the 2 documents at the same zoom level side by side for comparison, I can see that the one I'm having problems with really does place the page number higher. Also, when I view the footers, I can see that the footer frame (the dashed line) is taller for the document with the improper positioning. Changing the footer margin does change the size of the footer frame and the position of the page number, but unlike the first document, the position doesn't match the number entered for the footer margin. I just don't understand what's going on here... I've read some suggestions that you just shouldn't use the insert page number option and instead just use a page number field in the footer directly. However, I couldn't find the include chapter number option when inserting a page field. How is this done? Also, the last part of the document is a list of references. I've used the header1 style for the title but removed the chapter number. The page numbers inherited the chapter number (letter) from the previous section. How can I advance it so it goes to the next letter, or even better, to an arbitrary letter (like "R-")? I'm also undecided if the number should continue between chapter letters (i.e. A-24, B-25) which is what it's doing or reset at the start of each chapter (i.e. A-24, B-1). If I wanted to do the latter, what would I have to do? Note that I need the displayed page number to match what's in the table of contents and table of figures... Thanks for your help! |
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