Using InsertFile and Page Numbering 'Restart' behaves unexpectedly

[Terry Aney]

Hi,

I am automating Word 2007 (have tried with VBA and C#) to append several
documents together. These documents can have different margins,
headers/footers, etc.

I have followed the procedure described by
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/Formatting/WorkWithSections.htm and am not getting
the desired output.

Given the following documents:

Document 1 - No headers, footers without page numbers

Document 2 - Different margins from Document 1, has no headers, but has
footers without page numbers.

Document 3 - Same margins as Document 2, has no headers, but has footers
*with* page numbers. The first section in this document is *not* linked to
previous section (or so Word says when I have this document opened in
isolation) and it has its page numbering set to restart at number 1.

I have a loop that essentially puts the continuous section breaks at the
beginning and end (setting size to 1 font size so 'not noticeable') in via
code 'simliar' to:

foreach document
call application.Selection.HomeKey(wdStory)
call application.Selection.InsertBreak(wdSectionBreakContinuous)
call application.Selection.Document.Sections(1).Range.Select
application.Selection.Font.Size = 1

call application.Selection.EndKey(wdStory)
call application.Selection.InsertBreak(wdSectionBreakContinuous)
call application.Selection.Document.Sections(
application.Selection.Document.Sections.Count-1
).Range.Characters.Last.Select
application.Selection.Font.Size = 1

Then assuming I've opened Document 1, I have the following code to merge the
three documents:

call application.Selection.EndKey(wdStory)
call application.Selection.InsertBreak(wdSectionBreakNextPage)
call application.Selection.InsertFile("Document 2")
call application.Selection.EndKey(wdStory)
call application.Selection.InsertBreak(wdSectionBreakNextPage)
call application.Selection.InsertFile("Document 3")

Everything (i.e. margins, headers and footers) looks pretty good except for
the problem that the *first page* of 'Document 3' has a page number equal to
the actual page that the page corresponds to in *entire* merge (i.e. page 13
say), then the *second page* of 'Document 3' starts over at page number 2 and
continues on.

When I examine the page numbering restart properties on the first page of
'Document 3' (after the merge) the property has changed to 'Continue from
previous section'.

If anyone has any suggestions I would greatly appreciate it.

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

The following code will set the page numbering in each section of a document
to start at 1:

Dim s As Section
For Each s In ActiveDocument.Sections
With s.Headers(wdHeaderFooterPrimary).PageNumbers
.RestartNumberingAtSection = True
.StartingNumber = 1
End With
Next s


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Hope this helps,

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

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[Terry Aney]

Well, I can't just loop through all sections and set page restart = true, b/c
they may or may not want that. I could try to check the first section of
document about to be inserted and try to set the last section (or insert a
section) of the document I'm inserting into...

Just curious why the described method from MVP isn't working