Number only the Odd (or Even or Select) Pages

[Tony]

I am working on a training manual. When laid open, the Instructor's manual
will have the information on the right page with instructor notes on the left
page. Currently, all the Instructor information is hidden text. But this
leaves a blank page and I hate wasting paper.

So I hid the text AND the page breaks. This takes care of the blank page.
However, there is a page numbering discrepancy between the Instructor Guide
and the Student Guide. For example, the Instructor Guide starts with Page 1
of notes whereas the Student Guide starts Page 1 of text. It's the same text
that is page 2 of the Instructor Guide. Page 2 of the Student Guide is Page
4 of the Instructor Guide.

It goes like this:
.. . . . . . . Student . . . Instructor
Page 1 . Text . . . . . .Notes
Page 2 . Text . . . . . .Text (page 1)
Page 3 . Text . . . . . .Notes
Page 4 . Text . . . . . .Text (page 2)
et cetera

The problem becomes obvious when the Instructor tells the students to "turn
to page 27" which might actually be something like page 13 or 46 depending on
whose version you're looking at.

The solution I came up with was simple and elegant: do not number the
Instructor Notes pages. They don't need page numbers anyway. However, I
have not been able to figure out how to force Word to "skip" pages when
numbering. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

-Tony

 

[Greg Maxey]

Tony,

No promises that the asnwer lies within, but it might:
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Page_Numbering.htm

I am working on a training manual. When laid open, the Instructor's
manual will have the information on the right page with instructor
notes on the left page. Currently, all the Instructor information is
hidden text. But this leaves a blank page and I hate wasting paper.

So I hid the text AND the page breaks. This takes care of the blank
page. However, there is a page numbering discrepancy between the
Instructor Guide and the Student Guide. For example, the Instructor
Guide starts with Page 1 of notes whereas the Student Guide starts
Page 1 of text. It's the same text that is page 2 of the Instructor
Guide. Page 2 of the Student Guide is Page 4 of the Instructor Guide.

It goes like this:
. . . . . . . Student . . . Instructor
Page 1 . Text . . . . . .Notes
Page 2 . Text . . . . . .Text (page 1)
Page 3 . Text . . . . . .Notes
Page 4 . Text . . . . . .Text (page 2)
et cetera

The problem becomes obvious when the Instructor tells the students to
"turn to page 27" which might actually be something like page 13 or
46 depending on whose version you're looking at.

The solution I came up with was simple and elegant: do not number the
Instructor Notes pages. They don't need page numbers anyway.
However, I have not been able to figure out how to force Word to
"skip" pages when numbering. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

-Tony

--
Greg Maxey - Word MVP

My web site http://gregmaxey.mvps.org


McCain/Palin '08 !!!

 

[Tony]

Greg,
Your { =({ Page }+1)/2} code works great! Thanks for that.

There's one more issue though. When I hide the Instructor Notes (for
printing) the pages automatically renumber and I end up with pages numbered
1.5, 2.5, etc. I'm pretty sure I knew where to find a setting in Word2000
turning off the auto-updating of fields but can't find it in Word2007.

 

[Greg Maxey]

Tony,

Before you print save as a new file. Open the file slecect all (CTRL+a)
then CTRL+Shift+F9 to unlink fields.

Greg,
Your { =({ Page }+1)/2} code works great! Thanks for that.

There's one more issue though. When I hide the Instructor Notes (for
printing) the pages automatically renumber and I end up with pages
numbered
1.5, 2.5, etc. I'm pretty sure I knew where to find a setting in
Word2000 turning off the auto-updating of fields but can't find it in
Word2007.

--
Greg Maxey - Word MVP

My web site http://gregmaxey.mvps.org


McCain/Palin '08 !!!