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Paul Honore - 19 Jan 2004 14:57 GMT

Still having a problem with page numbers. I have a three
section doc; cover, toc, main body. I only want page
numbers in the main body. So my footer shows "Page x of y".
Cover is one page, toc is two pages, main body is 14 pages.
No numbers show up in first two sections which is great
and main body starts with 1. However the total includes the
cover and toc so first page of main body shows 1 of 17,
not 1 of 14. How can I get the total to represent only
the main body pages, not the whole doc? Thanks.

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Jay Freedman - 19 Jan 2004 18:30 GMT

Hi, Paul,

If you select the footer and press Shift+F9 to display the field codes,
you'll see that the "y" part is a {NUMPAGES} field. Change that to say
{SECTIONPAGES} -- just change the word, but don't touch the braces. Select
the whole footer and press F9 to update the fields. Now it will count only
the pages in Section 3.

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> Still having a problem with page numbers. I have a three
> section doc; cover, toc, main body. I only want page
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> not 1 of 14. How can I get the total to represent only
> the main body pages, not the whole doc? Thanks.

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