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MS Office Forum / Word / Programming / February 2005NUMPAGES is dumb-pages
Now, I know this is going to be an old chestnut, but here goes. NUMPAGES does not, after printing a document, contain the numbe of pages in the document. It contains, depending upon when and where you look at it, the current page number or 1. I have Word 2000, with all the latest SPs and printing is in the foreground. But still this field is unreliable. I have tried my actions on Word 2003 too, and that is also unreliable. This has been around for so long, someone must have a reliable work-around, or a patch, or a registry hack or some thing that will cure this problem. PLEASE help me. The management enemy are breathing down my neck about this. Gem There is a bug in Word that is different in different versions (including different SRs). See http://www.addbalance.com/word/pagexofy.htm or http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/AppErrors/PageXofY.htm for information on Page X of Y problems. You may also want to take a look at: http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Numbering/PageNumbering.htm. If it applies you may also want to look at http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Numbering/PageNumber0.htm.  SignatureCharles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. > Now, I know this is going to be an old chestnut, but here goes. > [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > Gem Thanks Charles. I found that I had all the up-to-date service packs. The problem was being caused by the fact that my automated process was opening the Word document, and then applying a pass-word protection to it, to prevent users changing its contents. Unfortunately, this "protection" was observed, selectively, by the process that updates NUMPAGES. I tried forcing an update to NUMPAGES (using print-view, normal-view, print-view toggling etc...), and then applying the pass-word protection lock. This just resulted in NUMPAGES containing another WRONG value! For a product that had a prototype running under Windows 2 (I know, I used that prototype, and it looked promising in those days), there seems to have been little improvement over the last 15 years! Gem > There is a bug in Word that is different in different versions (including > different SRs). [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] >> >> Gem I have macros that lock all fields in a document - including in headers and footers. Unfortunately, it locks PAGE and NUMPAGE fields as well so I have to unlock those by hand or they give the wrong result. It sounds like your "helper" software may be doing something similar. SignatureCharles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. > Thanks Charles. > [quoted text clipped - 42 lines] >>> >>> Gem |
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