Greetings,

I'm using Word 2003 in XP and have inherited some documents created by
someone who didn't understand sections and page numbering. They started each
document at a different number (100, 200, 300, etc) and  put multiple
sections onto one page somehow, and so often had to use Insert > Page
Numbers > Format to change the "Start At" field to make the numbering work.

Nearly every footer is different, in that he added a piece of information
pertaining to THAT area of the document in the footer, so I can' t just
remove the footers and start over.

So, in a fit of desparation, I simply did a Ctrl + A to Select All and used
the "Insert > Page Numbers > Format" hoping that it would fix all of them.
It seemed to work on one or two documents, but not consistently so I often
end up changing my "Go To" to "Section" and using Page Down to highlight
each section and manually change the numbering format.

I haven't the time to go in and fix everthing in these documents, so I'd
like to find a way to globally change the numbering properties of ALL the
sections so that even when there are multiple sections on one page, the
numbering of each page works.

Is there a way to take manually entered Page Numbers formatting and globally
change it to "Continue from Previous Section" or some such?

Thanks,

Solon