How do I print Word pages using relative page numbers?

[Guest]

Since I frequently work with documents that exceed 20 pages, I use a table of
contents. For example, I use lower-case Roman Numerals for the TOC, and then
restart the page numbering scheme with the first page of the document after
the TOC. When I want to print the last ten pages (all of the appendices) it
drives me crazy, because if I tell it to print pages 30-40, it prints the
30th through the 40th page in the document, which are not pages 30-40. If
the cover and the TOC take up 4 pages, I end-up getting pages 26-36. Is
there a way to tell Word that I want to print the current page and the next 9
pages? I know that I used to be able to do this (many decades ago) but I
can't figure out how to do it in Word 2003.

Thanks!

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

You probably need to be specifying the Section number as well as the page
number, or maybe just the section number that applies to all of the pages
that you want to print

for example p#s# - p#s# or s# or s# - s#

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[Jay Freedman]

Your statement that you restart the numbering implies to me that you
have at least one section break in the document. In the Print dialog,
enter the page numbers in the form p30s2-p40s2 (assuming the pages are
in the second section). See
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/PrintMultipleSections.htm.

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On Tue, 7 Aug 2007 15:00:01 -0700, Sue Miller-Beers <Sue

 

[Guest]

Thank you Jay, I never knew that you could specify sections when trying to
print specific pages. I'll check out the link you sent me too.

Sue

 

[Guest]

Hi Doug,

Thanks for the information, I did not know that section numbers could be
included in the page number schema.

Sue