Page numbering by Sections w/o Heading Styles

[WildLight]

I have a 350+ page master document which contains 31 subdocuments. The
original subdocuments came from several sources, so using a standard Heading
Style would not work. This is an Emergency Operations Plan for a Northern
California county, and the document has been in use for several years.

When I updated this document recently, the county asked that the pages,
which had been numbered consecutively, be numbered by Section. The reason
being that adding or deleting pages would only require repaginating that
section. Therefore, I need to number each Section individually & sequentially
within that section, i.e., 1-1, 1-2, 2-1, etc.

Now I find that Word "must" use Heading Styles to allow Chapter Titles to be
added to the page number. Is there any other way to include Section Number -
Page Number so the pages print correctly, and the TOC includes the
Section-Page Number. I have embedded the TOC entries within each subdocument.

I would have used a page layout tool like Adobe InDesign to create such a
large and complex document, but the county uses Microsoft Office as its
standard. Is there any relief in Word 2007?

Any assistance you can provide would be appreciated.

 

[Shauna Kelly]

Hi

The only way to do chapter numbering in Word is to use the tools that Word
provides for the purpose, and that includes the built-in heading styles.

The following may help:

I want to include the chapter number with the page number in the Header -
how can I do this?
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Numbering/ChapterNumber.htm

Why Master Documents corrupt
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/WhyMasterDocsCorrupt.htm

How to recover a Master Document
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/RecoverMasterDocs.htm

Hope this helps.

Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP.
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word