footers formatting problem

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Why does Words formatting always leave me feeling so frustrated? Why can't Microsoft just fix these problems once and for all...do they know how painful it is to a user? Please, make it more intuitive and user friendly! Meanwhile, can someone help me with weird behavour with MS Word 2000 Footers

All I want is something very simple...I want to be able to force a page number to indicate whatever I want it to. It doesn't seem to matter whether I am dealing with a number of consecutive pages in one section or going from one section to another, I get the same page number duplicating on mulitple pages. The reason I'm not using MS Words built in page numbering is because I've got a custom numbering scheme which assigns letters to a section then a number to page numbers in that section (i.e. A-1, A-2, A-3, B-1, B-2, B-3, etc...) Word doesn't have built in style for that and I can't seem to find any option to configure such a style. If anyone knows how to configure this, this would probably solve my problem. My painful workaround is simply to force each page to a manually named page but that seems to have lots of issues too. I've got the "same as previous footer" disabled but when I go to arbitrarily name a page number, it will, for reasons only an advanced user or an MS Word 2000 designer might know, name all pages in a section and even across different sections the same number! What in Sam Hills is going on with Word?
 
OK, let's start from what you are trying to do.

If you only need the page numbers to appear in the custom format in the
footer (i.e. you are not using TOC, Index or page cross references), then
the procedure is:

* Make a new Word section for each of your numbered sections. (If you are
working on a document you've been fighting with, you might find it helpful
to clear out previous sections, or at least make sure you haven't got a lot
of continuous section breaks muddying the waters.)

* Set the page numbering for each section to start at 1

* Insert an ordinary page number ({PAGE} field in the footer

* Make sure section is not 'same as previous', and type in the prefix for
the section

If you need the section letter to be part of the page number proper, then
you need to read http://word.mvps.org/faqs/numbering/ChapterNumber.htm
If you do not have the section letters already appearing as part of a
built-in numbered Heading style, then you will need to use an unused Heading
style to generate the letters, and hide a paragraph in this style somewhere
at the start of each section.

--
Margaret Aldis - Microsoft Word MVP
Syntagma partnership site: http://www.syntagma.co.uk


jw1000 said:
Why does Words formatting always leave me feeling so frustrated? Why can't
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Microsoft just fix these problems once and for all...do they know how
painful it is to a user? Please, make it more intuitive and user friendly!
Meanwhile, can someone help me with weird behavour with MS Word 2000
Footers?
All I want is something very simple...I want to be able to force a page
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number to indicate whatever I want it to. It doesn't seem to matter whether
I am dealing with a number of consecutive pages in one section or going from
one section to another, I get the same page number duplicating on mulitple
pages. The reason I'm not using MS Words built in page numbering is because
I've got a custom numbering scheme which assigns letters to a section then a
number to page numbers in that section (i.e. A-1, A-2, A-3, B-1, B-2, B-3,
etc...) Word doesn't have built in style for that and I can't seem to find
any option to configure such a style. If anyone knows how to configure this,
this would probably solve my problem. My painful workaround is simply to
force each page to a manually named page but that seems to have lots of
issues too. I've got the "same as previous footer" disabled but when I go to
arbitrarily name a page number, it will, for reasons only an advanced user
or an MS Word 2000 designer might know, name all pages in a section and even
across different sections the same number! What in Sam Hills is going on
with Word?
 
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