Page numbering conversion from Mac version FIle Series

[Mark]

Hi, I have converted a screenplay from Word on a Mac to
Word on a PC. I need to know what the equivalent is for
File Series on the Mac. All I wish to do is have
continuous page numbers starting with Act 1 and flowing to
the subsequent documents (Acts 2 - 4). Is it the Master
Document/Sub Document feature?

Many Thx.

Mark

 

[Charles Kenyon]

Which versions of Word on the Mac and PC?

"Master Document" is a term of art in Word referring to a "feature" that not
only doesn't work but also destroys documents. The consensus (with the
limited exception of Steve Hudson) among those offering advice on these
newsgroups is that using the Master Document feature is a sure way to
destroy your document. It can destroy parts of your document that you are
not even working on! I think John McGhie said it succinctly when he said
that there are two kinds of Master Documents: Those that are corrupt and
those that will be corrupt soon. See <URL:
http://www.addbalance.com/word/masterdocuments.htm> for information on the
Master Document feature and workarounds. (This page also has a link to Steve
Hudson's chapter on how he gets Master Documents to work.) See <URL:
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/General/WhyMasterDocsCorrupt.htm> for more
information on what goes wrong, and <URL:
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/General/RecoverMasterDocs.htm> for ideas on
how to salvage what you can.

You can work around this using bookmarks InsertText and calculation fields.
Take a look at http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Numbering/PageNumbering.htm for
a start on using calculation fields in page numbering. You would simply
bookmark a NumPages field in Doc1 and use it that bookmark as a source in
your calculation in Doc2, bookmark a calculation field of Doc1bookmark +
Doc2NumPages in Doc2 and use that as the base in Doc3, etc. Or... just put
them all in one document.

 

[Mark]

These are older versions. On the Mac 5.1 and on the PC
Word 97. There must be some standard simple way to let's
say print a manuscript of 30 chapetrs, each a seoarate
document, but have the page numbers start with 1 and
continue counting when the "next file" (chapter 2) is
printed, and so on.

Mark

 

[Charles Kenyon]

Look at the end of my last post. That is the standard way.

Here is a post from a couple of days ago on the same subject.
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Hi everyone,

I have a C# Application that, if neccessary, divides a large document into
separate smaller ones. But the first page of the second document must be one
more than the last page of the first document. No problem with that.

The problem is that in the footer of the page, I have a "Page x of y" field,
and the 'x' value is correct, but the y value is the number of pages of the
second document, when it should be the total number of pages of the whole
document.

Is there a way that I can set the value of the number of pages to the valur
that I need?

Thanks, from Spain

Mark the numpages field in doc1 with a bookmark "TotPages"

Instead of a NumPages field use something along the lines of:

{ = { NumPages } + { INCLUDETEXT "doc1.doc" TotPages } }

You could do something similar with the X part as well so that you do not
have to manually adjust the start of page numbering.

BTW, Word will work with quite large documents. I have one with more than
5000 pages including a Table of Contents that references every page at least
once.