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Subject:Re: Ways of generating page counts in Word 97? From:John Gilger <jgilger_it -at- NV -dot- DOE -dot- GOV> Date:Thu, 8 Apr 1999 16:02:04 -0700
This looks suspiciously like a LOEP for a mil-spec style classified
manual.
I might sound like a smart-ass old dinosaur, but sometimes the old
low-tech ways still work ok. Make this the last page you produce. When
the document is reviewed and set for production, look at the last page
of each chapter, appendix, etc. and fill in the number on your LOEP. It
is a lot less hassle than trying to make Word jump through hoops.
This can be done with a macro, also. You just have to brush up on your
VB skills and write one. I inherited a macro at a previous project
that melded individual chapter files into a huge multi-hundred page doc
that would normally make Word choke, but kept the files separate.
Basically, it just did a page count on each of the other files and used
the result to fill in your blanks.
