Remove all section breaks

[dd]

I have mailmerged a document and the page numbers are all the same "1 of 75"
how do I remove all the pagebreaks and make each section follow on - so that
I have 1 of..., 2 of ..,. 3 of 75 etc.

D Dawson

 

[Peter Jamieson]

Have you tried Finding/Replacing a section break ^b with a manual page break
^p ?

Peter Jamieson

 

[dd]

I tried a variety of ways, but my page numbers remain the same. They all
appear "1 of 75"

Replacing ^b with a space makes no change to the document

Replacing ^p with a space makes 671 replacements.
The page header/footer still display Section 1, Section 2 etc, but my header
text goes awry.
My document is 75 pages long after I do this it reduces to 73 pages (I think
this is because of the changes to header text)

Even after I remove the section breaks will I not need to link-to-previous
and set the page numbering to continue from the previous section?

Have you tried Finding/Replacing a section break ^b with a manual page break
^p ?

Peter Jamieson

 

[Peter Jamieson]

I should of course have said replace ^b by ^m.

If trying to replace ^b replaced nothing, it suggests that there are no
seciton breaks, which would be strange. if you use View|Normal to look at
the document, can you definitely see the breaks?

What fields are you using in your header to do the page numbering?

Peter Jamieson

 

[dd]

Peter,

It seems to be the way my page is set up going back to what I said
previously - my document is a mailmerged document.

Each page containing a table with a merged photograph and text within the
table.

There is a free space above the table and I notice when i click here and
insert a section break - the next page appears blank. I would expect the
table to be put on the next table.

When I view normal and delete a section break the table appears to move up
one line and the space between my header and the table disappears.

Nothing happens when I try to replace ^b with ^m.
When I view the page in normal layout
::::::::::Section Break (Next Page):::::::::::
appears between the pages

I should of course have said replace ^b by ^m.

If trying to replace ^b replaced nothing, it suggests that there are no
seciton breaks, which would be strange. if you use View|Normal to look at
the document, can you definitely see the breaks?

What fields are you using in your header to do the page numbering?

Peter Jamieson

 

[Peter Jamieson]

Try the following:

Insert a paragraph mark before your table in your mail merge main document
(and probably one afterwards for good measure), re-execute the merge, then
replace ^b by ^m.

You may be able to avoid all that by using a Directory type merge instead of
a Form Leters type merge - you wuill need to insert a page break after the
table in your mail merge main document for that to work.

Peter Jamieson

 

[dd]

Peter,

I have done what you suggested and now my page numbers run consecutively.

I know this wasn't the right group to post to and I want to follow this up
with a quation regarding a blank first page and having the total number of
pages minus one.

Can you tell me the proper group to posting this follow-up.

Thanks Peter, for all your advice.

Dylan
Scotland
..
Try the following:

Insert a paragraph mark before your table in your mail merge main document
(and probably one afterwards for good measure), re-execute the merge, then
replace ^b by ^m.

You may be able to avoid all that by using a Directory type merge instead of
a Form Leters type merge - you wuill need to insert a page break after the
table in your mail merge main document for that to work.

Peter Jamieson

 

[Peter Jamieson]

Good

Can you tell me the proper group to posting this follow-up.

For mailmerge and field issues, micrsoft.public.word.mailmerge.fields

I don't know what it's called on the Micrsoft Communities pages - probably
still "Mailmerge and Fax", for some reason.

If there's any VBA or non-field programming involved I'd say this and/or
perhaps one of the Word VBA groups is still your best bet.

The construction you need is probably be something like { PAGE } of { ={
NUMPAGES }-1 } where all the {} are the special field braces you can insert
using ctrl-F9.

Peter Jamieson