Unusual Page Number Sequence in the Middle of Document

[nick.demarco]

I have a multipage document, and part-way through, I wish to number pages in
the header or footer in an unusual manner, e.g. 11, 12, 12-A, 12-B, 13 etc.
I'm using Word 2003 and experimented with page and section breaks, but I
cannot seem to beat this. I checked the entries here, and didn't see this
question (but may have missed it). Any ideas? (Thank you all for your time
and dedication.)

 

[Stefan Blom]

As far as I can tell, what you are asking for can not be done in Word,
except by manually enter the page numbers; you probably won't find it worth
the effort.

 

[nick.demarco]

Thanks for looking at it, Stefan. I was hoping for a miracle, like the
graphics layer in Excel, or something similar.

Wouldn't that be a neat idea? - a graphics layer that you could activate
atop the Word document itself? Then text boxes, graphics, etc. could be
placed independently of the text body.

Nick

 

[Graham Mayor]

Word does have a separate graphics layer, but it isn't going to help with
this numbering problem. For that you need section breaks - the first at the
end of Page 12. Unlink the header/footer.

In the first section you would use a numeric page number field, starting at
1

On page 13, the first page of section 2 you would type 12- then insert a
page number field using the format ABC and start the numbering from A.

When you want to go back to the original number sequence, insert another
section break. Insert a Page number field with numeric digits and restart
the numbering from 13.

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[Stefan Blom]

But, of course, a page number such as "12-A" where the "12-" part has been
typed in, will not be correctly reflected in (say) the table of contents.

 

[Graham Mayor]

Now don't complicate things

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[Stefan Blom]

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Now don't complicate things

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