Word 2002/PDFMaker Page Count is Different

A

Aimee

I'm working with an almost 400 page document that was
originally created in Word 97. I'm using Word 2002 SP3
and Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Pro.
When I attempt to print the document to Adobe PDF, the
PDF file page count is different than the Word file
count. On top of that, the Table of Content shows an even
different page count.

For instance, the original Word document says it has 397
pages and so does it's TOC.

The PDF file shows there are 381 pages and it's TOC shows
there are 394 pages.

I have looked and searched MS's site and only found
information vaguely similar to this relating to indexes
but nothing about TOC's and page count.

Does anyone have an explanation and fix for this? Any
help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Aimee
 
J

Jean-Guy Marcil

Bonjour,

Dans son message, < Aimee > écrivait :
In this message, < Aimee > wrote:

|| I'm working with an almost 400 page document that was
|| originally created in Word 97. I'm using Word 2002 SP3
|| and Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Pro.
|| When I attempt to print the document to Adobe PDF, the
|| PDF file page count is different than the Word file
|| count. On top of that, the Table of Content shows an even
|| different page count.
||
|| For instance, the original Word document says it has 397
|| pages and so does it's TOC.
||
|| The PDF file shows there are 381 pages and it's TOC shows
|| there are 394 pages.
||
|| I have looked and searched MS's site and only found
|| information vaguely similar to this relating to indexes
|| but nothing about TOC's and page count.
||
|| Does anyone have an explanation and fix for this? Any
|| help would be greatly appreciated.

Any fields in your Word document?

Are you displaying the pages in Word with "View All" on?

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J

John McGhie [MVP - Word]

Hi Aimee:

Jean-Guy is on the right track: the last thing Word does before it prints is
update its page numbers. However, you need to choose Tools>Options>Print
and enable "Update fields" to make sure that it updates he Table of Contents
at the same time.

As Jean-Guy says, you also need to ensure that you do not display any hidden
text such as fields before printing. Otherwise, when you print, Word
collapses the hidden text and the page numbers will change.

Hope this helps


from said:
I'm working with an almost 400 page document that was
originally created in Word 97. I'm using Word 2002 SP3
and Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Pro.
When I attempt to print the document to Adobe PDF, the
PDF file page count is different than the Word file
count. On top of that, the Table of Content shows an even
different page count.

For instance, the original Word document says it has 397
pages and so does it's TOC.

The PDF file shows there are 381 pages and it's TOC shows
there are 394 pages.

I have looked and searched MS's site and only found
information vaguely similar to this relating to indexes
but nothing about TOC's and page count.

Does anyone have an explanation and fix for this? Any
help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Aimee

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