Urgent: wrong page numbering in header

[Joseph N.]

[Word 2002] I have a two page document. There are no section
dividers. There is no fancy formatting. But the header on the
second page reads page 3, not page 2. I tried it with the page icon
on the H/F toolbar, and I deleted that and tried it with the Page
field. Same thing. How can this be??

 

[Word Heretic]

G'day "Joseph N." <[email protected]>,

send me a copy off list and I'll have a gander for you. Sounds very
strange. Note that dependant on your page layout settings you might
have three different headers and footers. First, odd and even. That
may be playing havoc with you.

[Word 2002] I have a two page document. There are no section
dividers. There is no fancy formatting. But the header on the
second page reads page 3, not page 2. I tried it with the page icon
on the H/F toolbar, and I deleted that and tried it with the Page
field. Same thing. How can this be??

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[Word Heretic]

the start value of the pagination field

Huh? Insert > field > pagination?????
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[Cindy Meister -WordMVP-]

Hi Joseph,

[Word 2002] I have a two page document. There are no section
dividers. There is no fancy formatting. But the header on the
second page reads page 3, not page 2. I tried it with the page icon
on the H/F toolbar, and I deleted that and tried it with the Page
field. Same thing. How can this be??

Are you absolutely certain you don't have any section breaks in the
document (move to the end of the doc and look in the Status bar, next
to Sec)? And is the page number on the first page really 1?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jan 24 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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[Joseph N.]

Are you absolutely certain you don't have any section breaks in
the document (move to the end of the doc and look in the Status
bar, next to Sec)?

Yes. When I click to reveal formatting, no section break appears;
and, right up to the last space where I can put the cursor, the
status bar reads, "Sec 1."

And is the page number on the first page really 1?

Well, that depends on how you measure it. It is the first visible
page, and the fraction on the status bar correctly indicates that
it is "1/2." On the other hand, the status bar also reads "Page
2," and an inserted page field (from the H/F toolbar or
Insert/Field) indicates page 2.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

In that case, you almost certainly have page numbering set to Start at 2. Go
to Format Page Number and change it to "Continue from previous section" (the
default), which will ensure that, even if you do add section breaks later,
the numbering will be continuous throughout.

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Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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[Word Heretic]

G'day Joseph,

after looking at the document offlist it is indeed document
corruption. Maggie the document first, that is cuttenpaste everything
bar the last para mark, to a new document.

Then, before your last text para with the screwy page details you have
a corrupt paragraph mark sitting halfway acrossthe screen that appears
to have an embedded break of some sort causing the problem.

Kill that and restyle your text para, then all is well.

Huh? Insert > field > pagination?????
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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Also note that the default setting is "Continue from previous section," and
you will do well to leave this unless you need to start with a number other
than 1. If you set it to "Start at 1," then if you ever add another section,
it will restart numbering.

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Hi Joseph

Yes, you've got it right.

The key to understanding this is to remember two things:

1. Every page has a number. That page number may or may not be displayed.

So your first piece of paper is page 1, but you chose not

to display the page number. The second and subsequent pieces of paper are

pages 2 to n. And you chose to display the page number (so

you see 2 on page 2).

2. Page numbering is a characteristic of a section, not individual pages.

You can tell Word to start the numbering of pages in this

section with whatever number you like (but here, you need 1).

So a way to think about what you've done and see it as intuitive is to say:
I have a document that consists of one section. The page numbering runs

from 1 to n. I don't want to display the page number on the

first page. Therefore, I will tick the "different first page" box. That

allows me to have a header just for the first page of my

section (in which I will display no page number), and a header for all

subsequent pages (in which I will display the page number).