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What could go wrong? Incrementing numbers on pages
Someone wanted each page of a document to have numbers incrementing from
106367. I'm sure there's a better way, but what I did was put it in the place of page numbers as ={PAGE} + 106366. It worked, but now I'm wondering what could go wrong, and what the real method of doing that would have been. There still might be time to change it. Thanks again and again! |
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What could go wrong? Incrementing numbers on pages
Although calculated page numbers work, they won't be used by Word in
cross-references or tables of contents. A better approach is to change the "Start at" value in the Page Number Format dialog box. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Island Girl" wrote in message ... Someone wanted each page of a document to have numbers incrementing from 106367. I'm sure there's a better way, but what I did was put it in the place of page numbers as ={PAGE} + 106366. It worked, but now I'm wondering what could go wrong, and what the real method of doing that would have been. There still might be time to change it. Thanks again and again! |
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What could go wrong? Incrementing numbers on pages
Although calculated page numbers work, they won't be used by Word in
cross-references or tables of contents. A better approach is to change the "Start at" value in the Page Number Format dialog box. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Island Girl" wrote in message ... Someone wanted each page of a document to have numbers incrementing from 106367. I'm sure there's a better way, but what I did was put it in the place of page numbers as ={PAGE} + 106366. It worked, but now I'm wondering what could go wrong, and what the real method of doing that would have been. There still might be time to change it. Thanks again and again! |
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What could go wrong? Incrementing numbers on pages
Oooops! Thanks, Stefan!
"Stefan Blom" wrote: Although calculated page numbers work, they won't be used by Word in cross-references or tables of contents. A better approach is to change the "Start at" value in the Page Number Format dialog box. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Island Girl" wrote in message ... Someone wanted each page of a document to have numbers incrementing from 106367. I'm sure there's a better way, but what I did was put it in the place of page numbers as ={PAGE} + 106366. It worked, but now I'm wondering what could go wrong, and what the real method of doing that would have been. There still might be time to change it. Thanks again and again! . |
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What could go wrong? Incrementing numbers on pages
Oooops! Thanks, Stefan!
"Stefan Blom" wrote: Although calculated page numbers work, they won't be used by Word in cross-references or tables of contents. A better approach is to change the "Start at" value in the Page Number Format dialog box. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Island Girl" wrote in message ... Someone wanted each page of a document to have numbers incrementing from 106367. I'm sure there's a better way, but what I did was put it in the place of page numbers as ={PAGE} + 106366. It worked, but now I'm wondering what could go wrong, and what the real method of doing that would have been. There still might be time to change it. Thanks again and again! . |
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What could go wrong? Incrementing numbers on pages
But the reason that solution was offered is that Word cannot generate page
numbers larger than (at a guess) 106366. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Island Girl" wrote in message ... Oooops! Thanks, Stefan! "Stefan Blom" wrote: Although calculated page numbers work, they won't be used by Word in cross-references or tables of contents. A better approach is to change the "Start at" value in the Page Number Format dialog box. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Island Girl" wrote in message ... Someone wanted each page of a document to have numbers incrementing from 106367. I'm sure there's a better way, but what I did was put it in the place of page numbers as ={PAGE} + 106366. It worked, but now I'm wondering what could go wrong, and what the real method of doing that would have been. There still might be time to change it. Thanks again and again! . |
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What could go wrong? Incrementing numbers on pages
But the reason that solution was offered is that Word cannot generate page
numbers larger than (at a guess) 106366. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Island Girl" wrote in message ... Oooops! Thanks, Stefan! "Stefan Blom" wrote: Although calculated page numbers work, they won't be used by Word in cross-references or tables of contents. A better approach is to change the "Start at" value in the Page Number Format dialog box. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Island Girl" wrote in message ... Someone wanted each page of a document to have numbers incrementing from 106367. I'm sure there's a better way, but what I did was put it in the place of page numbers as ={PAGE} + 106366. It worked, but now I'm wondering what could go wrong, and what the real method of doing that would have been. There still might be time to change it. Thanks again and again! . |
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What could go wrong? Incrementing numbers on pages
Thanks, Suzanne! Looks like a do-over is in the works!
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: But the reason that solution was offered is that Word cannot generate page numbers larger than (at a guess) 106366. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Island Girl" wrote in message ... Oooops! Thanks, Stefan! "Stefan Blom" wrote: Although calculated page numbers work, they won't be used by Word in cross-references or tables of contents. A better approach is to change the "Start at" value in the Page Number Format dialog box. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Island Girl" wrote in message ... Someone wanted each page of a document to have numbers incrementing from 106367. I'm sure there's a better way, but what I did was put it in the place of page numbers as ={PAGE} + 106366. It worked, but now I'm wondering what could go wrong, and what the real method of doing that would have been. There still might be time to change it. Thanks again and again! . . |
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What could go wrong? Incrementing numbers on pages
Thanks, Suzanne! Looks like a do-over is in the works!
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: But the reason that solution was offered is that Word cannot generate page numbers larger than (at a guess) 106366. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Island Girl" wrote in message ... Oooops! Thanks, Stefan! "Stefan Blom" wrote: Although calculated page numbers work, they won't be used by Word in cross-references or tables of contents. A better approach is to change the "Start at" value in the Page Number Format dialog box. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Island Girl" wrote in message ... Someone wanted each page of a document to have numbers incrementing from 106367. I'm sure there's a better way, but what I did was put it in the place of page numbers as ={PAGE} + 106366. It worked, but now I'm wondering what could go wrong, and what the real method of doing that would have been. There still might be time to change it. Thanks again and again! . . |
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What could go wrong? Incrementing numbers on pages
I could be wrong about the specific number, but I do recall reading a thread
somewhere in one of these NGs in which this came up, and it was ascertained that there is some limit to page numbering. Note that this is NOT a limit to the number of actual pages (see, for example, http://www.technologyquestions.com/t...-ms-word.html), just the numbering. Ah, here we go: according to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/212159, you can have page numbers from 0 to 32,766 when using arabic numerals, 1-780 using letters of the alphabet, and 1-32,766 using roman numerals. That article is about Word 2000, but I feel sure there would be no change through Word 2003; it might be different in Word 2007 (interestingly, there has been some variation among earlier versions; see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/176137/en-us). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Island Girl" wrote in message ... Thanks, Suzanne! Looks like a do-over is in the works! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: But the reason that solution was offered is that Word cannot generate page numbers larger than (at a guess) 106366. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Island Girl" wrote in message ... Oooops! Thanks, Stefan! "Stefan Blom" wrote: Although calculated page numbers work, they won't be used by Word in cross-references or tables of contents. A better approach is to change the "Start at" value in the Page Number Format dialog box. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Island Girl" wrote in message ... Someone wanted each page of a document to have numbers incrementing from 106367. I'm sure there's a better way, but what I did was put it in the place of page numbers as ={PAGE} + 106366. It worked, but now I'm wondering what could go wrong, and what the real method of doing that would have been. There still might be time to change it. Thanks again and again! . . |
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