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MS Office Forum / Word / Mailmerge and Fax / March 2008page x in footer of merged doc
I've been reading some of the posts and have seen similar solutions using SECTIONPAGES, but I'm not sure if that's truly the answer I need. I'm using WinXP with Office 2003. I have a merge doc that is a single page. It contains a table with several lines. There is limited to no other text. The table contains the merge fields. I can successfully do the merge and it prints great. However, since it's only 1 page, I usually get pg. 1 of 1 (or pg. 1, pg. 2 ) on every footer. The last time I used this document, there were 28 pages. Becasue of the page numbering challenge, I usually hand-write each page number, but that gets tedious. How do I get the footer to say page 1, page 2, etc.? If the solution is SECTIONPAGES, would you please include the 'how-to' in the reply? Thanks in advance. Use a { Page } field in the footer and format the page number so that it starts at 1, rather than Continue from previous Section. That should be the default for a Form Letter type mail merge main document.  SignatureHope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP > I've been reading some of the posts and have seen similar solutions using > SECTIONPAGES, but I'm not sure if that's truly the answer I need. I'm [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > SECTIONPAGES, would you please include the 'how-to' in the reply? > Thanks in advance. Doug - thank you for the information. I think I understand most of your instructions. I opened the footer and chose to insert a Field. I chose PAGE from the list and then chose the format of 1,2,3.... Unfortunately, I still just get page 1, page 1, page 1, etc. I know I'm missing a step - and I'm sure it has to do with the Continue. I just don't know where to look for that option (either to use or not use it). Sorry to be dense! I feel like this is the right track, but I'm stuck. > Use a { Page } field in the footer and format the page number so that it > starts at 1, rather than Continue from previous Section. That should be the [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > SECTIONPAGES, would you please include the 'how-to' in the reply? > > Thanks in advance. Hi cjlatta, By default, the PAGE field resets to 1 for a merged document. If you want the page count to increment, you could: . change each footer to 'same as previous', but this could get tedious; or . simply insert a SECTION field instead of the PAGE field. Note that this will only work in this case because each Section consists of only one page. If you're wanting 'Page x of y' numbering, the 'y' part could be done with a NUMPAGES field. Cheers Signaturemacropod [MVP - Microsoft Word] ------------------------- > Doug - thank you for the information. I think I understand most of your > instructions. I opened the footer and chose to insert a Field. I chose PAGE [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] >> > SECTIONPAGES, would you please include the 'how-to' in the reply? >> > Thanks in advance. Thanks for the help. > Hi cjlatta, > [quoted text clipped - 36 lines] > >> > SECTIONPAGES, would you please include the 'how-to' in the reply? > >> > Thanks in advance.
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