Page numbering problem in multisection document when formatting co

[Dudley Rose]

I have a multisection document that a program Living Cookbook generates
through a Word template. It comprises a title page section, a table of
contents section, a section of recipes, and an index section. Page numbers
begin at the recipe section. If I highligh ingredients of one of the
recipes, for example, and farmat them into 2 columns, the following page
number changes to 2. I can go into the footers and eventually set each page
number (although I usually have to set it at 1 minus the page I want) and get
it fixed. But there must be a way to avoid this problem and the associated
page by page fix.

I have looked through several of the help pages on page numbers and
sections, but nothing seems to apply to this problem, at least as I can
figure out. I'm glad to provide an example file; although that doesn't seem
possiblewithin the newsgroup.

Thank you,
Dudley Rose

 

[Charles Kenyon]

When you add column formatting, you are adding section breaks. You may be
pushing pages around when you do this. Consider using a two-column
(borderless) table instead of column formatting.
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Charles Kenyon

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If you're restarting page numbering at some point, then this setting is
being propagating through all the new sections you create.

 

[Dudley Rose]

Charles, thank you. The problem is that the items I want to format into
columns will already be in the document. That is, I highlight a list of
recipe ingredients and then format them into two columns. Is there a way to
easily get such existing text into table form? I've not been able to see how.

Thanks,
Dudley

 

[Charles Kenyon]

If the items to be in the two columns are already separated by tabs, you can
use Convert Text to Table.
Otherwise, if it is simply a long column, create your table and cut 1/2 of
the column and paste into the first table cell and then paste the other half
into the second cell.
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Charles Kenyon

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[Dudley Rose]

Charles, this is very helpful. The only difficulty with the forst option is
when one of the items wraps, it leaves the opposite column with a gap. So, I
think the second idea, cutting and pasting half the culmn works a little
better. I wish there were a more automated way to accomplish the task, or at
least fewer steps, but I guess not. I do find Word's placing ownership of
page numbers in the sections, or at least the way they behave, to be less
than ideal.

Thanks again,
Dudley