Re: Auto numbering in Page numbers

["Madeline Bechtold" <talking_rain -at- hotmail -dot- com>]

Hi Shweta,

What you described sounds like the {NUMPAGES} field bug which affected both 
Word 97 and 2000. I've encountered it, too.

For info on Microsoft's SR-1 fix and other workarounds, see

http://www.microsoft.com/office/sup/support.asp?lu=1&prd=word

Unfortunately, if you're distributing your document widely, these solutions 
probably won't really help you. That is, it won't be practical for every 
user to install SR-1, and instructing users to update fields manually or to 
disable background printing seems rather unwieldy to me.

You might be able to write a Word VBA macro that automatically updates 
document fields prior to printing. However, I believe you can distribute 
macros only to users who designate you as a trusted source and/or who set 
their machines to medium or low security in (Word) Tools > Macro > Security.

What a nuisance! Up to now, I've dealt with the problem by simply not using 
the {NUMPAGES} field in my documents...

Good luck!

Madeline Bechtold
talking_rain -at- hotmail -dot- com