Complex page numbering in documents?
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From: Andy Hewitt on 16 May 2010 16:30 I was recently asked by a friend how they could number the pages in a Word (Windows version) document they were submitting for some coursework. Basically they needed to set numbering to start at page one part way through the document. Specifically, it was an intro page, an essay, followed by a book. Easy I thought. How wrong I was. I tried it first in Word, and followed to the letter the instructions as written in the help files. I had already assumed that it would require section breaks, which help confirmed, and set the numbering for each section. Yeah, right, except it didn't work, the numbers would only run consecutively across the sections, regardless of any settings I tried for not following previous sections. The only section that needed the numbering was the book, and he only workaround I could find that did work was to give all the introduction pages their own section (one page per section), and set the 'do not number first page' option. I also tried a similar task in OpenOffice, but found that even worse, and could only get continuous page numbers across all sections. In Pages I can do this in a few clicks, and it does the job. Any tips for mixed page numbering? -- Andy Hewitt <http://web.me.com/andrewhewitt1/>
From: Woody on 16 May 2010 16:50 Andy Hewitt <thewildrover(a)me.com> wrote: > I was recently asked by a friend how they could number the pages in a > Word (Windows version) document they were submitting for some > coursework. > > Basically they needed to set numbering to start at page one part way > through the document. Specifically, it was an intro page, an essay, > followed by a book. Easy I thought. How wrong I was. .... > Any tips for mixed page numbering? I suppose 'Don't try and use word' would be that helpful would it? -- Woody www.alienrat.com
From: Andy Hewitt on 16 May 2010 16:58 Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > Andy Hewitt <thewildrover(a)me.com> wrote: > > > I was recently asked by a friend how they could number the pages in a > > Word (Windows version) document they were submitting for some > > coursework. > > > > Basically they needed to set numbering to start at page one part way > > through the document. Specifically, it was an intro page, an essay, > > followed by a book. Easy I thought. How wrong I was. > > ... > > > Any tips for mixed page numbering? > > I suppose 'Don't try and use word' would be that helpful would it? That was exactly my own thought. If they did Pages for Windows..... Is it just that I'm more used to the Mac way, or is it that the Mac stuff is really better? I know that I can struggle for hours in Word (or OpenOffice come to that) to produce something more than a plain text document, yet achieve it in minutes in Pages (and indeed Appleworks before that). -- Andy Hewitt <http://web.me.com/andrewhewitt1/>
From: Graham J on 16 May 2010 17:57 "Andy Hewitt" <thewildrover(a)me.com> wrote in message news:1jilshp.mzhdgdtd1ou3N%thewildrover(a)me.com... >I was recently asked by a friend how they could number the pages in a > Word (Windows version) document they were submitting for some > coursework. > > Basically they needed to set numbering to start at page one part way > through the document. Specifically, it was an intro page, an essay, > followed by a book. Easy I thought. How wrong I was. > > I tried it first in Word, and followed to the letter the instructions as > written in the help files. I had already assumed that it would require > section breaks, which help confirmed, and set the numbering for each > section. > > Yeah, right, except it didn't work, the numbers would only run > consecutively across the sections, regardless of any settings I tried > for not following previous sections. The only section that needed the > numbering was the book, and he only workaround I could find that did > work was to give all the introduction pages their own section (one page > per section), and set the 'do not number first page' option. > > I also tried a similar task in OpenOffice, but found that even worse, > and could only get continuous page numbers across all sections. > > In Pages I can do this in a few clicks, and it does the job. > > Any tips for mixed page numbering? Why does it have to be one file? Make it into 3 documents, number as required. Problem with Word is that it will alter the layout according to the printer settings on the recipients computer - this might just render any page numbering inaccurate Far better to create as separate documents numbered or not as required, convert to PDF, then merge the PDFs into a single PDF. -- Graham J
From: Andy Hewitt on 16 May 2010 18:36
"Graham J" <graham(a)invalid> wrote: [..] > > Any tips for mixed page numbering? > > Why does it have to be one file? I believe that's the format that's required for this work. > Make it into 3 documents, number as required. That's what I would have done too, normally. > Problem with Word is that it will alter the layout according to the printer > settings on the recipients computer - this might just render any page > numbering inaccurate > > Far better to create as separate documents numbered or not as required, > convert to PDF, then merge the PDFs into a single PDF. Yeah, I could do that easily enough, but it's not me needing this. Besides, I think the work has to be submitted as a Word file (this is back to our wonderful educational system again, even the private sector is working the same way). -- Andy Hewitt <http://web.me.com/andrewhewitt1/> |