Pagination madness - final note.

[Jim Wood]

Suzanne's help in solving this problem, along with her tips for Booklet
Printing with earlier versions of Word, have been of great value in my
present project. With regard to the pagination issue, the tips on "How to
set up a document with front matter numbered separately" address my issue
only partway, as it seems the page numbering can be turned off completely for
only the first page of a Section, and I needed it off for all Section I
pages. Moreover, additional characters placed in the footer in any section
(an em dash before and after the page number) pop up in all sections.

However, I did come up with a Band-Aid® fix that works in my instance, and
it might come in handy for others. To hide the page numbers on my several
Section I pages, I simply covered them with a white-filled, opaque rectangle
(no border) generated with Word's drawing utility. Not elegant, but it
works; be sure that the Format/Auto Shape/Layout is set to place the
rectangle 'In front of text.'

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

only partway, as it seems the page numbering can be turned off completely
for

only the first page of a Section, and I needed it off for all Section I
pages.

Not true at all. You can change the number format and restart numbering
without unlinking sections, but if you want to have different text
(including no numbering), you must unlink the sections (turn off "Link to
Previous" in Section 2). The article used to instruct users to do this in
order to have different number formatting until someone pointed out that
unlinking was not necessary for that purpose alone. Perhaps I should
re-revise the article to make this clearer.

 

[Jim Wood]

Hey, HOW ABOUT THAT! I didn't realize that the Same As Previous icon toggled
to let you unlink as well as link. That worked a treat (of course!) and I am
as happy as the proverbial clam.

NONETHELESS, I am using blank white rectangles in another Word document
where the page consists of a series of tables (for left-margin annotation)
along with non-tabled (normal)paragraphs that match the table's text (right)
column. Photos, inserted inside Text Boxes to anchor them, do strange things
within the tables when the text box set for text to wrap. But placing a
white rectangle (set to wrap) behind a text box that is NOT set to wrap, and
only in line with the normal paragraph, causes the normal paragraph to wrap
nicely without invading the table area. (This is much more difficult to
describe than do!)

Many thanks again!