Help Suppressing a Footer

[Hal]

I have a multi page document. It has two footers on each page. One is a line
for one to initial; the second footer is the page number. On the last page I
do not need the line for initials but I do need the page numbers.

How do I suppress one footer without supresing the page number?

The instructions I found for doing so were to insert a section break at the
top of the last page and then delete the footer on the last page. But when I
did so, it disappeared throughout the document.

What did I do wrong? How do I accomplish this?

Thanks.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You can do this with an IF field. See
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/HeaderFooter.htm#CleverTricks for the
general principle. You want the opposite result, so instead of

{ IF { PAGE } = { NUMPAGES } "Text you want to appear on the last page" }

you can use

{ IF { PAGE } < { NUMPAGES } "Text you want to appear on all but the last
page" }

 

[Hal]

Suzanne -

Thank you. But I cannot get that to work. I copies and pasted exactly what
you wrote. I deleted the text between the quotation marks and inserted my
text. All I get is the whole IF filed printed out. What am I doing wrong?

 

[Hal]

Wait. I just saw the stuff about ctrl f9. Let me try again.

 

[Hal]

It did not work. Here is what I did. What did I do wrong?

I selected the text in the footer that I want on all pages except the last
one.
I used a CTRL X to cut it.
I typed IF PAGE NUMBER < TOTAL PAGE NUMBERS ''

(Where PAGE NUMBER is the insert current page number function and TOTAL PAGE
NUMBES is the insert total number of pages function}

I pressed CRTL F9

I inserted the cursor between the quotation marks and inserted the text that
I had cut.

I pressed F9.

All that was left was the current page number.

 

[Hal]

I just tried it again and it worked. Not sure what I was doing wrong. Thanks
for the assistance.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Well, I'm glad I didn't revisit this thread sooner!