Re: Autotext page numbering problemo

["Miriam McGinty-Lowe" <Miriam_McGinty-Lowe -at- MDSUK -dot- COM>]

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you on this one.

Doug Grossman asked: Does anyone know how to manipulate the second number in the
running-total page number thing? I'm using the autotext entry "Page x of y."

I've had a similar problem where my cover sheet has no page number, my TOC is
numbered i, ii, iii etc and my body document is numbered page x of y.

I considered doing the first page is -2 thing, but I was writing a template for
users creating documents that might be any size and I couldn't guarentee how
many pages their TOC would cover.

In the end I added a hidden bookmark called 'firstpages' just after the index,
then added the page numbering formula

Page   {PAGE}   of   {  =  ({NUMPAGES}  -1)  -  {PAGEREF  firstpages  \*  Arabic
\*MERGEFORMAT}}



The  \* Arabic is really important, otherwise Word doesn't know that 30 - iii is
27



When I open a document numbered this way Word sometimes decides to display the y
figure  as  a negative number, but it always clears up on print, or if you force
Word to update fields a couple of times.



This formula hasn't broken...

..yet.



Hope this helps,



Miriam






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