continuous page numbering and section breaks

[matt steinruck]

heres a fun one:

i mail-merged a 2-page letter, and ended up with a 328
page word file...chocked full of page 1 and 2.

each newly-merged letter begins a new section, and each
new section starts with page 1.

so, if i want to begin printing with page 57, i cant.
even though there is a 57th page in the document, word
recognizes it as "page 1" in that section.

question:
can i somehow automatically remove all the section
breaks, and/or have the pages continuously numbered
across the whole document?

 

[Chad DeMeyer]

Matt,

To remove all the section breaks from you document, go to
Edit>Replace>More>Special>Section Break. Position the cursor in the
"Replace with:" text box and click Special>Manual Page Break. Click Replace
All.

To have the pages numbered continuously across the whole document without
removing section breaks, you would need to go through the footer for each
section, click the Format Page Number button on the Header and Footer
toolbar, and set to 'Continue from previous'.

You can print specific pages from your document as it is now if you know the
trick. For instance, page 57 has an adjust page number of 1. Assuming that
every section has 2 pages, that puts it in section 29, and the document has
164 sections. So to print from page 57 to page 328, enter the page range in
the print dialog as "p1s29-p2s164". This tells the printer to print page 1
of section 29 through page 2 of section 164.

Regards,
Chad DeMeyer

 

[matt]

thank you!!

-----Original Message-----
Matt,

To remove all the section breaks from you document, go to
Edit>Replace>More>Special>Section Break. Position the cursor in the
"Replace with:" text box and click Special>Manual Page Break. Click Replace
All.

To have the pages numbered continuously across the whole document without
removing section breaks, you would need to go through the footer for each
section, click the Format Page Number button on the Header and Footer
toolbar, and set to 'Continue from previous'.

You can print specific pages from your document as it is now if you know the
trick. For instance, page 57 has an adjust page number of 1. Assuming that
every section has 2 pages, that puts it in section 29, and the document has
164 sections. So to print from page 57 to page 328, enter the page range in
the print dialog as "p1s29-p2s164". This tells the printer to print page 1
of section 29 through page 2 of section 164.

Regards,
Chad DeMeyer






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