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Subject:Re: Annoying footer numbering in Word From:"Anderson, Keith" <keith_anderson -at- GOOITECH -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 29 Jan 1998 08:35:00 -0600
Nancy:
A tech writing friend of mine and I researched this last week. According
to the MS knowledge base on their Web site, it's an "issue" and they are
looking into it. I just added it the other thousand or so "issues" with
Word 97 they are looking into.
The official Microsoft workaround is to print the document so it will
update all of the field codes at once. Instead, I use an autoexec macro
(which runs every time I open a document based on that template) that
selects everything, updates the field codes, and then does the same
thing for the header and footer.
I would also love to see them fix the sorting order in the style
drop-down list while they're at it.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: McDonald, Nancy (The Registry) [SMTP:McDonalN -at- LCI -dot- COM]
> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 1998 8:17 AM
> To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject: Annoying footer numbering in Word
>
> Hey, 'Whirlers,
>
> Have any of you experienced this? I'm documenting some major action
> plans, issues, etc., of a team, and divide my docs in several
> sections. The doc is separated into several sections & paginated in
> the footer something like, "Page 3 of 14" for example. I use the
> toolbar buttons that signify "page number" and "number of pages."
> When I re-open the doc after closing, I get something like "Page 3 of
> 1" and each section uses "1" in the "number of pages" field. It's
> making me crazy, and I'm wondering if everyone in my distribution list
> who gets this doc might be having that same number experience.
>
> Does anyone know whether this is a known bug and of a workaround for
> this?
>
> TIA,
> Nancy McDonald,
> Tech writer
>
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