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I'm working on a Training curriculum with seperate modules each as a seperate word file. I need to number the pages so they flow but I don't want manually have to go and update them when pages gets deleted or added.

I tried this appraoch:
1 At the end of the first document insert a PAGE field; select it.
2 Format the field as "hidden".
3 Place the field in a bookmark (Word 6/95: Edit/Bookmark; Word97 and later: Insert/Bookmark).
4 Save this file; open the next file.
5 In the header or footer, where the page number should appear, insert the following set of fields:

{ = { PAGE} + { INCLUDETEXT "C:\\My Book\\Chap1.doc" Chap1Pages
\* CharFormat \! } }

6 Repeat the steps for each document in sequence.

But these documents will be distributed to several people so the field needs to be able to work when the path to the files changes but keeping all the files in the same folder.

Is this at all possible?
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Actually, keeping a single file would be the easiest solution, by far. However,
see if you find the method in the following article useful:
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/p...cle.asp?ID=148.

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I'm working on a Training curriculum with seperate modules each as a
seperate word file. I need to number the pages so they flow but I don't
want manually have to go and update them when pages gets deleted or
added.

I tried this appraoch:
1 At the end of the first document insert a PAGE field; select it.
2 Format the field as "hidden".
3 Place the field in a bookmark (Word 6/95: Edit/Bookmark; Word97 and
later: Insert/Bookmark).
4 Save this file; open the next file.
5 In the header or footer, where the page number should appear,
insert the following set of fields:

{ = { PAGE} + { INCLUDETEXT "C:\\My Book\\Chap1.doc" Chap1Pages
\* CharFormat \! } }

6 Repeat the steps for each document in sequence.

But these documents will be distributed to several people so the field
needs to be able to work when the path to the files changes but keeping
all the files in the same folder.

Is this at all possible?




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That's a remarkably useful article -- but it was last updated in 2003.
Later this year I will have to do that for a 90-chapter volume, and I
was planning to combine them all into a single document -- because
there is to be a single combined bibliography for the whole book.

Is there some way to follow this RD procedure that will produce a
common bibliography?

On Sep 5, 7:52*am, "Stefan Blom"
wrote:
Actually, keeping a single file would be the easiest solution, by far. However,
see if you find the method in the following article useful:http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/p...cle.asp?ID=148.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

"BvE" *wrote in ...

I'm working on a Training curriculum with seperate modules each as a
seperate word file. I need to number the pages so they flow but I don't
want manually have to go and update them when pages gets deleted or
added.

I tried this appraoch:
1 * *At the end of the first document insert a PAGE field; select it.
2 * Format the field as "hidden".
3 * *Place the field in a bookmark (Word 6/95: Edit/Bookmark; Word97 and
later: Insert/Bookmark).
4 * *Save this file; open the next file.
5 * *In the header or footer, where the page number should appear,
insert the following set of fields:

{ = { PAGE} + { INCLUDETEXT "C:\\My Book\\Chap1.doc" Chap1Pages
\* CharFormat \! } }

6 * *Repeat the steps for each document in sequence.

But these documents will be distributed to several people so the field
needs to be able to work when the path to the files changes but keeping
all the files in the same folder.

Is this at all possible?

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I'm assuming you mean the built-in bibliography function in Word 2007 and 2010?
I haven't tested, but I suspect that it won't be supported for a "master"
document set up with RD fields.

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That's a remarkably useful article -- but it was last updated in 2003.
Later this year I will have to do that for a 90-chapter volume, and I
was planning to combine them all into a single document -- because
there is to be a single combined bibliography for the whole book.

Is there some way to follow this RD procedure that will produce a
common bibliography?

On Sep 5, 7:52 am, "Stefan Blom"
wrote:
Actually, keeping a single file would be the easiest solution, by far.
However,
see if you find the method in the following article
useful:http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/p...cle.asp?ID=148.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

"BvE" wrote in ...

I'm working on a Training curriculum with seperate modules each as a
seperate word file. I need to number the pages so they flow but I don't
want manually have to go and update them when pages gets deleted or
added.

I tried this appraoch:
1 At the end of the first document insert a PAGE field; select it.
2 Format the field as "hidden".
3 Place the field in a bookmark (Word 6/95: Edit/Bookmark; Word97 and
later: Insert/Bookmark).
4 Save this file; open the next file.
5 In the header or footer, where the page number should appear,
insert the following set of fields:

{ = { PAGE} + { INCLUDETEXT "C:\\My Book\\Chap1.doc" Chap1Pages
\* CharFormat \! } }

6 Repeat the steps for each document in sequence.

But these documents will be distributed to several people so the field
needs to be able to work when the path to the files changes but keeping
all the files in the same folder.

Is this at all possible?

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BvE


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