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Subject:Re: Annoying footer numbering in Word: THANKS From:"McDonald, Nancy (The Registry)" <McDonalN -at- LCI -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 30 Jan 1998 11:19:36 -0500
To all of you who responded to my annoyances: (yes I do have Word97),
and yes updating the fields is a good workaround... I forgot about
that trick! (Haven't needed to use that for awhile.) Again, thanks
for all the tips! Saved me time already!
Nancy McDonald
snip> When I re-open the doc after closing, I get something like
"Page 3 of
> 1" and each section uses "1" in the "number of pages" field. It's
> making me crazy, and I'm wondering if everyone in my distribution
list
> who gets this doc might be having that same number experience.
>