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MS Office Forum / Word / Numbering / October 2007Strange page numbering
My automatic page numbering goes: 17, 18, 19, 18, 19, 20. Does anyone have any idea of what would make it go backwards? There's a section break between page 19 and page 20 with page numbering set to restart at 18.  SignatureSuzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. > My automatic page numbering goes: 17, 18, 19, 18, 19, 20. Does anyone > have any idea of what would make it go backwards? Thanks for your answer, Suzanne! There are 2 section breaks half-way down page 19 (to allow for 2 short sections with 2 columns). How would these affect the page number? I didn't tell it to start at 18. Where would it have gotten that setting? How can I make it behave and display 20 instead of 18? (It's marked Same as previous.) I was afraid of that. Continuous section breaks make for problems because the section in the middle of the page has its own header and footer (even though they aren't displayed and are consequently inaccessible) and page numbering can be restarted in that section. There are various ways to deal with this, including inserting a temporary page break in the middle of the center section or temporarily removing the section breaks, but you can do it directly if you're careful. Go to Insert | Page Numbers and click on Format... Set the page numbering to "Continue from previous section." Click OK. This will get you back to the Page Numbers dialog. Be careful to click Close rather than OK so you don't insert additional (framed) page numbers. SignatureSuzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. > Thanks for your answer, Suzanne! > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > How can I make it behave and display 20 instead of 18? (It's marked > Same as previous.) Success! Thank you. It seems easy, though it wasn't necessarily obvious. I had fiddled with the Insert Page Number dialogue, but had no luck. Suzanne, I've seen your posts before, and consider you the All-Knowing One of word processing. Glad you got it sorted! SignatureSuzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. > Success! Thank you. It seems easy, though it wasn't necessarily > obvious. I had fiddled with the Insert Page Number dialogue, but had > no luck. > > Suzanne, I've seen your posts before, and consider you the All-Knowing > One of word processing.
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