Different page numbers between header/footer

[Mike]

I am working on a book that is split into multiple
chapters. Each chapter is a separate document (because I
don't want to scroll through a 300 page document to make
changes).

I have set up the header to display the universal page
number. So chapter 1 starts at page 1, chapter 2 starts
counting at page 22, etc.

I want the footer to display "Ch. 2-(chapter's page
number)". "Ch. 2-" I've entered manually. I want the
page number to be the page number of the current chapter,
NOT the page of the book.

The problem starts with chapter 2 forward. I set the
header to start on page 22 and that apparently forces the
footer to start at page 22 as well. So I get a header
of "22" and a footer of "Ch. 2-22" instead of a
footer "Ch. 2-1".

Is there any way to tell the header and the footer to
start at different page numbers?

Thanks for any help!
Mike

 

[Stefan Blom]

When you insert page numbering using either Insert>Page Numbers or the
Insert Page Number button on the Header/Footer toolbar what you insert
is actually a PAGE field. And although you can have several
occurrences of page numbers, corresponding to several inserted PAGE
fields, on a given page each field will display the same result,
because the displayed number is determined by the settings of the Page
Number format dialog box; and these settings are valid for an entire
section. (A document that has no inserted section breaks is made up of
a single section.)

Fortunately, you can use calculated page numbers if you need several
different page numbering sequences.

In this case, you would use calculated page numbers in your footers to
display page numbers starting from 1. For your second chapter, where
page numbering is set to start at 22, you could use the following
nested fields to display 1, 2, 3, etc:

{ = { PAGE } - 21 }

Use CTRL+F9 to insert field delimiters {}, and then type the equality
sign. Then press CTRL+F9 again, type PAGE, and finally type - 21. (Be
careful to also include the spaces in the field code above!) Press F9
to update the field and view its result.

Note that if you have inserted a table of contents field, Word will
generate its page numbers based on the settings of the Page Number
Format dialog box. The same is true for cross-references (to page
numbers).