In Word, many of the people I support want to have the first page excluded
from the total count of pages, yet have a page 1 of 5 type pagination, with 1
being the second page of the document.

You can do that by adding a section break between the non-numbered pages and
the numbered pages. There should be no more than one section in the numbered
pages. You can then insert a field that is the total number of pages in the
section (insert, field, numbering, sectionpages).

Here is a problem that happens with that in Word 2003: When printing, you
can get page 1 of 1, 2 of 2, 3 of 3. The problem happens because Word 2003
seems to be able to print before the document has fully evaluated how many
pages there are, so it prints the value it has calculated at that point.

The solution, at this point, is to WAIT until the pagination has been
established (going into print preview helps that.)

Has anyone else run into this?

Hi Katie,

*Lots* of people have run into this -- it's a known bug. It was fixed,
broken again, and supposedly fixed again in Word 2000, but now we're hearing
that it's recurring in Word 2003. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/PageXofY.htm.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
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Katie wrote:
In Word, many of the people I support want to have the first page
excluded from the total count of pages, yet have a page 1 of 5 type
pagination, with 1 being the second page of the document.

You can do that by adding a section break between the non-numbered
pages and the numbered pages. There should be no more than one
section in the numbered pages. You can then insert a field that is
the total number of pages in the section (insert, field, numbering,
sectionpages).

Here is a problem that happens with that in Word 2003: When
printing, you can get page 1 of 1, 2 of 2, 3 of 3. The problem
happens because Word 2003 seems to be able to print before the
document has fully evaluated how many pages there are, so it prints
the value it has calculated at that point.

The solution, at this point, is to WAIT until the pagination has been
established (going into print preview helps that.)

Has anyone else run into this?

To add to what Jay has said, just when NumPages was supposedly fixed, then
people started reporting the same sort of problem with SectionPages. Perhaps
in Word 12?

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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"Jay Freedman" wrote in message
...
Hi Katie,

*Lots* of people have run into this -- it's a known bug. It was fixed,
broken again, and supposedly fixed again in Word 2000, but now we're
hearing
that it's recurring in Word 2003. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/PageXofY.htm.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup
so
all may benefit.

Katie wrote:
In Word, many of the people I support want to have the first page
excluded from the total count of pages, yet have a page 1 of 5 type
pagination, with 1 being the second page of the document.

You can do that by adding a section break between the non-numbered
pages and the numbered pages. There should be no more than one
section in the numbered pages. You can then insert a field that is
the total number of pages in the section (insert, field, numbering,
sectionpages).

Here is a problem that happens with that in Word 2003: When
printing, you can get page 1 of 1, 2 of 2, 3 of 3. The problem
happens because Word 2003 seems to be able to print before the
document has fully evaluated how many pages there are, so it prints
the value it has calculated at that point.

The solution, at this point, is to WAIT until the pagination has been
established (going into print preview helps that.)

Has anyone else run into this?