Excluding a page from page numbering

[Dimitri]

I have a document of 9 pages.
I would like to page number the first eight pages and
exclude the nineth.

Any idea on how to do that?

 

[Jonathan West]

Hi Dimitri

Take a look at the last section of this article

How to control the page numbering in a Word document
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Numbering/PageNumbering.htm

With a bit of adaptation, you can have an If field that displays the page
number only of the page number is less than the number of pages.

The set of fields would look like this

{IF { PAGE } < { NUMPAGES } { PAGE } "" }

 

[Dimitri]

Thank you for your reply.
Unfortunately, I'm stugling alittle.
Here's How I'm entering the formula.

1. CTRL+F9
2. I type IF
3. CTRL+F9
4. I type PAGE
5. I type <8 followed by a space
6. I type two double quotes
7. Between the two double quotes I press CTRL+F9
8. I type PAGE
9. I press space followed by two double quotes
10 I press F9

It doesn't display any page numbers
What am I doing wrong?

 

[Jonathan West]

Thank you for your reply.
Unfortunately, I'm stugling alittle.
Here's How I'm entering the formula.

1. CTRL+F9
2. I type IF
3. CTRL+F9
4. I type PAGE
5. I type <8 followed by a space
6. I type two double quotes
7. Between the two double quotes I press CTRL+F9
8. I type PAGE
9. I press space followed by two double quotes
10 I press F9

It doesn't display any page numbers
What am I doing wrong?

Item 5 is wrong. You need a space between < and 8
Item 10 is wrong. Should be "Select the whole field and press Shift-F9

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

It will still be wrong. He'll get page numbers on pages 1-7 and not on 8 and
9. It would be much simpler to use this one:

{ IF { PAGE } < { NUMPAGES } { PAGE } }

No FalseText needed.

 

[rlampky]

But this would still count the total number of pages when using page X of
Y, only it would not be visible on the last page, correct?

My question would be how to have the page X of Y not include that last page.

I tried this with sectionpages and the problem I ran into is the document
has three sections that I want to count as 1 and they are each counted
individualy. Is there a formula to count section1 + section2 for the X of Y
pages...?

 

[Greg Maxey]

I think you will need { IF {PAGE} < {NUMPAGES}"{PAGE} of {=({NUMPAGES}-1)}
pages" }