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Why is it that in previous Word versions (I am now using Windows Office 2007)
it was so simple to include numbers in the upper right hand corner and not have the number for page 1 show in the upper right hand corner. Now despite many efforts I cannot do what was simple in previous Word versions. Are Microsoft designers sadists? Do they not know how to follow through in keeping minor procedures simple? Are they afraid of simple or are they too simple to be able to recognize a good thing. There are specialists who are professional in how to mess up what is already apparent and understandable and workable so that it is not understandable, workable or apparent and those people reside at Microsoft in the Microsoft design section. Now if I type 2 on the second page the number 2 shows up on every page! How, when and why would anyone ever want every page numbered as 2? I know who. Those brains at Microsoft who know how to dream about the money they earn but are not able to think about what is real in the conscious world. Frank C. |
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If you type 2 in the header of a document in any version of Word then that 2
will be repeated in every page to which that header applies. If you want page numbers in the header, insert a page field.. You can either type that field CTRL+F9 for the brackets - { Page } or insert it from the Insert Quickparts menu. Nothing has changed - except the user interface. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Frank C. wrote: Why is it that in previous Word versions (I am now using Windows Office 2007) it was so simple to include numbers in the upper right hand corner and not have the number for page 1 show in the upper right hand corner. Now despite many efforts I cannot do what was simple in previous Word versions. Are Microsoft designers sadists? Do they not know how to follow through in keeping minor procedures simple? Are they afraid of simple or are they too simple to be able to recognize a good thing. There are specialists who are professional in how to mess up what is already apparent and understandable and workable so that it is not understandable, workable or apparent and those people reside at Microsoft in the Microsoft design section. Now if I type 2 on the second page the number 2 shows up on every page! How, when and why would anyone ever want every page numbered as 2? I know who. Those brains at Microsoft who know how to dream about the money they earn but are not able to think about what is real in the conscious world. Frank C. |
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I would have to disagree with the statement that "Nothing has changed." In
fact, the old Insert | Page Numbers feature is gone, and I am ambivalent about that. In a way I am glad, because the feature made it very easy to insert page numbers but less easy to remove them (not like Format | Background | Printed Watermark, where you are given the option of removing the watermark; there was no option to remove page numbers through the dialog). And because the page numbers were inserted in a frame, which sometimes caused problems with an actual header/footer and, if the number was deleted but the frame left, had a tendency to wander, it was problematic. But it can't be denied that having a one-click way to insert a page number top or bottom, left or right or center (or even inside/outside) AND omit it from the front page (without having to know anything about First Page or Odd/Even Page headers/footers) was a blessing for many casual Word users. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... If you type 2 in the header of a document in any version of Word then that 2 will be repeated in every page to which that header applies. If you want page numbers in the header, insert a page field.. You can either type that field CTRL+F9 for the brackets - { Page } or insert it from the Insert Quickparts menu. Nothing has changed - except the user interface. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Frank C. wrote: Why is it that in previous Word versions (I am now using Windows Office 2007) it was so simple to include numbers in the upper right hand corner and not have the number for page 1 show in the upper right hand corner. Now despite many efforts I cannot do what was simple in previous Word versions. Are Microsoft designers sadists? Do they not know how to follow through in keeping minor procedures simple? Are they afraid of simple or are they too simple to be able to recognize a good thing. There are specialists who are professional in how to mess up what is already apparent and understandable and workable so that it is not understandable, workable or apparent and those people reside at Microsoft in the Microsoft design section. Now if I type 2 on the second page the number 2 shows up on every page! How, when and why would anyone ever want every page numbered as 2? I know who. Those brains at Microsoft who know how to dream about the money they earn but are not able to think about what is real in the conscious world. Frank C. |
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It is true that the old Insert | Page Numbers dialog no longer exists, so it
is a little more difficult to insert simple page numbers. How you insert one now depends a little on what else you may want to put in the header or footer. If all you need is a page number, then use Insert | Page Number and choose Top of Page or Bottom of Page. In your case, you'll choose the Top of Page gallery picture that shows the page number in the right corner. Note that you can also access these choices from the contextual Header & Footer Tools Design tab when the insertion point is in the header or footer (double-click in the header or footer area to activate it). To omit the page number on the first page, click the "Different First Page" box on the Header & Footer Tools Design tab. This gives you a separate First Page Header/Footer, which you leave empty. To replicate the Inside/Outside choice of the old Insert | Page Numbers dialog, you have to choose "Different Odd & Even Pages" and insert the page field in the appropriate location in the Odd Page Header/Footer and Even Page Header/Footer. If you will be including other text in the header or footer, it is better to use the "Current Position" item instead of one of the building blocks, since it doesn't replace other content. When you use any of these selections, you are, as Graham pointed out, inserting a PAGE field, which changes on each page. This is the equivalent of using the Insert Page Number button on the Header and Footer toolbar in earlier versions of Word. For much more on using headers and footers, including page numbers, see http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/HeaderFooter.htm, with special attention to the new part about Word 2007. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Frank C." wrote in message ... Why is it that in previous Word versions (I am now using Windows Office 2007) it was so simple to include numbers in the upper right hand corner and not have the number for page 1 show in the upper right hand corner. Now despite many efforts I cannot do what was simple in previous Word versions. Are Microsoft designers sadists? Do they not know how to follow through in keeping minor procedures simple? Are they afraid of simple or are they too simple to be able to recognize a good thing. There are specialists who are professional in how to mess up what is already apparent and understandable and workable so that it is not understandable, workable or apparent and those people reside at Microsoft in the Microsoft design section. Now if I type 2 on the second page the number 2 shows up on every page! How, when and why would anyone ever want every page numbered as 2? I know who. Those brains at Microsoft who know how to dream about the money they earn but are not able to think about what is real in the conscious world. Frank C. |
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