URGENT HELP!! Page X of Y function

[Guest]

I have a document I received that needs to be edited, they have a cover page
with no footer, the first two pages have Page X of Y left aligned and the
rest the document is Page X of Y centered.

My problem is that there are 42 pages including the cover page but I want it
to exclude the cover page In {NUMPAGES}, I have tried everything from
starting it on zero to deleting section breaks and updating the fields but
nothing seems to be working as it keeps counting the first page.

Any ideas?????

Thanks

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Use a formula field: { = { NUMPAGES } - 1 }

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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[Dawn Crosier, Word MVP]

Press CTRL+F9 twice to insert a field inside of a field.

{{}}

Change your fields so that they are:
{={NUMPAGES}-1}

Click inside the field and press F9 to update the field. That should get
you the total of pages, less 1.

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Dawn Crosier
Microsoft MVP
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I have a document I received that needs to be edited, they have a cover page
with no footer, the first two pages have Page X of Y left aligned and the
rest the document is Page X of Y centered.

My problem is that there are 42 pages including the cover page but I want it
to exclude the cover page In {NUMPAGES}, I have tried everything from
starting it on zero to deleting section breaks and updating the fields but
nothing seems to be working as it keeps counting the first page.

Any ideas?????

Thanks

 

[Guest]

I've tried both of the above already and it works fine except for the first
two page where it has the Page x of y left aligned and I have checked the
page and section breaks and it just wont update these 2 pages for me

 

[Dawn Crosier, Word MVP]

Can you delete the information from those first two pages, and then
re-insert it? There shouldn't be anything associated with having the text
left aligned versus centered. The only other thing that I can think of is
whether you have a section which has a "Same as Previous" turned on which
keeps getting reset every time you change the info - so you are caught in an
"updating your footers" loop. At this point in your document it won't hurt
anything to make sure that All of your Sections do not have "Same as
Previous" turned on.

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Dawn Crosier
Microsoft MVP
"Education Lasts a Lifetime"

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I've tried both of the above already and it works fine except for the first
two page where it has the Page x of y left aligned and I have checked the
page and section breaks and it just wont update these 2 pages for me