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Subject:Re: Word - odd pages only From:"Cheryl Wallace" <cwallace -at- costlink -dot- com> To:"Mark Baker" <mbaker -at- ca -dot- stilo -dot- com>, "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 14 Aug 2003 15:45:44 -0400
Thanks, Mark. Since this was a quick fix, I decided to go with it. As
advertised, it worked like a charm. I then used Jean's tip from earlier
this week to convert my TOC to text because the TOC hadn't been updated
since before I inserted the additional note pages.
grinning from ear to ear,
Cheryl
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Baker" <mbaker -at- ca -dot- stilo -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 1:26 PM
Subject: RE: Word - odd pages only
>
> > I have a document where I need to consider only the odd pages for page
> > numbers. In other words, the content will be on the odd pages
> > with the even
> > pages left for notes. I don't want to acknowledge the notes pages or
have
> > them figure in the page count. There will also be different even and
odd
> > headers.
>
> In the Odd Page header, insert a formula field with the following formula:
>
> {= ({PAGE}-INT({PAGE}/2))}
>
> You can't just type this in. You have to use "insert field" to get the
> formula field and the {PAGE} fields, but once you have it, it works like a
> charm.
>
> ---
> Mark Baker
> Stilo Corporation
> 1900 City Park Drive, Suite 504 , Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1J 1A3
> Phone: 613-745-4242, Fax: 613-745-5560
> Email mbaker -at- ca -dot- stilo -dot- com
> Web: http://www.stilo.com
>