How SECTIONPAGES is Evaluated within a Header and Footer

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dclayton - 25 Feb 2004 16:10 GMT

HOW SECTIONPAGES IS EVALUATED WITHIN A HEADER AND FOOTE

When Word evaluates fields within a Header and Footer, the propertie
of the page's first section are used. This can cause problems. Fo
example, consider the following Legal Agreement:

>       LEGAL AGREEMENT TITLE
> [------- Continuous Break -------]
>
>  Column 1 Line 1       Colum
> 2 Line 1
>  Column 1 Line 2       Colum
> 2 Line 2
>  Column 1 Line 3       Colum
> 2 Line 3
>  ...etc
>
> [Footer: Page {PAGE} of {SECTIONPAGES}]

When SECTIONPAGES is evaluated within the footer, the properties of th
first section, "LEGAL AGREEMENT TITLE", are used. Since the "LEGA
AGREEMENT TITLE" section spans less than one page, SECTIONPAGES withi
the footer would be evaluated as "1".

If this document spanned 5 pages, the unfortunate consequence would b
that the pages would be numbered: "Page 1 of 1", "Page 2 of 5", "Page
of 5", "Page 4 of 5", and "Page 5 of 5".

Does anyone have any suggestions as how to get around this proble
within Word? The example I'm using above is a 5-page section tha
appears within a larger document.

Dejay Clayto

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dclayton - 25 Feb 2004 16:12 GMT

Sorry, I meant to post this under "Numbering". Mods, please move it i
you can. Thanks,

Dejay Clayto

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dclayton - 25 Feb 2004 21:00 GMT

Since no one has replied to this post yet, I'm going to put it over i
Numbering instead. Please reply to that thread instead. Thanks

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP - DELETE UPPERCASE CHARACTERS FROM EMAIL ADDRESS - 26 Feb 2004 08:32 GMT

Answered in microsoft.public.word.numbering.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill - 26 Feb 2004 17:05 GMT

Not to mention that you wouldn't get posts full of
"     &nbsp."

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