"y" of "Page x of y" is incorrect

[Dan Goldstein]

You're using the NUMPAGES field. Try the SECTIONPAGES field instead.

-- Dan Goldstein 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nancy Allison
> Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 12:58 PM
> To: techwr-l at lists.techwr-l.com
> Subject: RE: "y" of "Page x of y" is incorrect
> 
> Hello again. The original problem is solved. I inherited this 
> document, and probably a couple of people had worked on it 
> before, using slightly different techniques that probably 
> confused Word. I went through it rigorously, straightening 
> out inconsistencies of various sorts, and the problem was 
> solved somewhere along the way.
> 
> Now I have a different problem. The total document is 47 
> pages long; the front matter is 6 pages long. I use roman 
> numerals for the TOC and Preface; I restart with Arabic 
> numerals on page 1 of chapter 1. However, the total number of 
> pages does not reset to 41 at this point. It remains 47.
> 
> Therefore, the last page of the document says "Page 41 of 47."
> 
> Not good. Again, is there a way to fix this through the menus? 
> 

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