Multiple number formats ON SAME PAGE?

[Ann Scharpf]

Is it possible to insert multiple page numbering schemes ON THE SAME PAGE? I
do not mean multiple numbered sections.

I have programming documentation files that include multiple file layouts.
A typical document might be a total of 100 pages, so the footer should have
numbers 1 - 100.

Assume the document has four file layouts. Each file layout currently has a
table heading with "page 1 of 1", "page 1 of 5", "page 1 of 3" and "page 1 of
7". The word processing group has inserted manual page breaks and typed
these page numbers manually.

I am trying to figure out if it is possible to have a single running table
with row headings OR a section with a header. I had envisioned linking
numbering with styles and having a TableStart style at the beginning of the
table. Then inserting a numbered style where I want the page numbers. "Page
(StyleNum) of 4" Then the word processors would only have to type in the
final page number and ongoing revisions would not be so manually intensive.
(Currently, adding & removing rows currently requires physically moving rows
from one page to the next because of the page breaks.)

Not sure if it is possible to get this numbering to increment for each page,
though. Is there ANY way to get two independent page numbers to print on a
single page?

We are currently running Word 97 (believe it or not!) but we are upgrading
to Word 2003 in March.

Thanks for any help you can give me.

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?QW5uIFNjaGFycGY=?=,

Your explanation wasn't very clear to me. Perhaps because we don't understand
the same thing under "page numbers"? Anyway...

Is there ANY way to get two independent page numbers to print on a
single page?

You can insert as many { PAGE } fields on a page as you wish. (A PAGE field is
what Word uses to calculate a page's number, based on the automatic document
layout). Each field will show the same number, however. As far as Word is
concerned, there's one, and only one, way to calculate the pages: by the page
breaks.

I am trying to figure out if it is possible to have a single running table
with row headings OR a section with a header...> Not sure if it is possible

to get this numbering to increment for each page,

though.

It definitely will NOT increment within a table header. The rows repeated at
the top of each page for a table header are literal copies of the original row,
at the beginning of the table.

A section with a header might work IF the StyleNum field you mention is
available on each page, and its content has incremented. What you might need to
do is place a very small frame, with no border, in a corner of the page (so the
user isn't likely to accidentally click on it), and have the "counter" in that.
Then you'd need a macro to go through the document, remove the frames (because
editing could move them to different pages), then "walk" the pages, reinserting
them (as an AutoText entry, perhaps).

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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