Jay said:
Thank you for the work-around. Is that absolutely necessary, though?
I'm a high school teacher, trying to teach my students about headers,
footers, page numbering, etc. and I'm trying not to complicate
things...
Well, what I described isn't a "workaround". It's more a case of "Microsoft
has a complicated situation and can't describe it all in two words on a
button face". In previous versions of Word, the corresponding buttons on the
Header/Footer toolbar had no text, but their tooltips said "Show Previous"
and "Show Next". The behavior didn't change, though -- the Show Next button
would take you through all the enabled headers (or footers) in the current
section, and then go on to those of the next section, and the reverse for
the Show Previous button. The "Next Section" button in Word 2007 does the
same. Personally I think the new wording is unfortunate, but there's no way
to change it.
On a somewhat related topic, I'm having some page numbering issues. I
inserted page numbers as Plain Number 2 style into a 10-page document
with two sections. Then, I changed them to Roman numerals. Pages
1-9 changed, but page 10 remained Plain Number 2 style. My first
section (Page 1) was active when I made the change, and the second
section is pages 2-10. Continue from previous section was set, but
since it was section 1, there was no previous section. Any ideas?
There's definitely a disconnect between the section arrangement you describe
and the behavior. If the page number on page 10 is formatted differently
from that on page 9, there must be a section break between those two pages;
the break after page 1 cannot be the only one.
The way page number formatting (as opposed to the page number sequence)
interacts with sections is one of those things that takes a fair bit of
explanation. When you go into the Page Number > Format Page Numbers dialog,
the top half of the dialog is independent of the bottom half.
In the bottom, you can set the starting number of the first page of the
current section, or tell it to continue the numbering from the previous
section. As you say, in section 1 there is no previous section, so section 1
always starts with page 1 unless you specify something different.
In the top half, the formatting you choose (e.g., arabic vs. roman numerals)
applies only to the current section, regardless of the settings in the
bottom half (and also regardless of the header's setting of Link to
Previous).
Thus, I could understand it if you said you changed the formatting of the
page number on page 1 and only that single page changed, while the numbers
on pages 2 through 10 did not -- that's the expected behavior if there's a
section break between pages 1 and 2.
Incidentally, this too is the same behavior as in Word 2003.
