Re: Chapter-page numbering, reasons for

[Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>]

In a PDF, you can always just search for 7-14.

Acrobat supports custom page numbering, but I've never used that feature.

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Boudreaux, Madelyn (GE Healthcare,
consultant) <MadelynBoudreaux -at- ge -dot- com> wrote:
> I also have to refer to the existing manuals a good bit, and yes, it can
> be a pain to find the right page. 7-14 may be 75 pages in, or it may be
> 150 pages in, and you just don't know. It appears to double to quadruple
> the amount of time it takes me to find a page I need. It's actually
> worse in Acrobat, because whereas I could grab the slider and go to
> about the right page if the pages were numbered consecutively, I can't
> even guess at where a page is using this format. ...
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