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Subject:Re: Word - odd pages only From:"Cheryl Wallace" <cwallace -at- costlink -dot- com> To:"John Posada" <JPosada -at- book -dot- com> Date:Thu, 14 Aug 2003 11:23:38 -0400
I'm not worried about getting page number to appear in the header or not. I
guess I'm looking for almost a variable to display the count of odd pages in
place of the actual page number.
Cheryl
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Posada" <JPosada -at- book -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 11:13 AM
Subject: RE: Word - odd pages only
>
> If you don't want to delete it, try making the color of the font the same
> color as the background in the footer of the side you don't want to show
the
> page number.
>
> John Posada, Senior Technical Writer
> Barnes&Noble.com
> Moderator: Yahoo "Techwriter" group
>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/techwriter/
> "If you're afraid to be second-guessed, you better not make any
decisions."
> --Hal Sutton, America's 2004 Ryder Cup Captain
>
> >
> > 1. Insert page numbers. They will be on all pages now, but
> > we'll fix that.
> >
> > 2. Click View > Header and Footer.
> >
> > 3. Open the even page footer and delete the number. It may be
> > there in the
> > form of an anchor and look like a graphic. Delete whatever is
> > in that footer.
> > You may have difficulty moving out of the footer by using the
> > Header and
> > Footer toolbar, so just Page Down or click Close on the toolbar.
> >
> > 4. Save the file, and then open it and check it.>