last page only footer

[Guest]

in word 2000 how do I attach a footer to only the last page of a document?
x of x and y of xy

 

[JudithJubilee]

Hello there,

If you want the footer to only appear on the last page
you need to add a section break:

1. Go to View + Normal.
2. Scroll down to the end of your document.
3. Click where you want the last page to start.
4. Insert + Break + Next Page Section Break.

This allows different headers and footers in the document.

5. Go to View + Print Layout.
6. Go to View + Header and Footer.
7. Click the Show Next icon on the Header and Footer
toolbar until you are in the last section.
8. Click the Same As Previous icon on the toolbar.

This turns off this feature which means that the footer
will not be changed if you change the footers in the
other sections.

9. Add the fields you want.

Hope this helps

Judith

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Here's a way to do it without a section break. You will create an IF
(conditional) field that says, "If the page number of this page is equal to
the total number of pages, print this." (Note that this won't work if you
have restarted numbering in the document.)

1. On the last page of your document, create the text that you want placed
in the footer only on that page. Press Ctrl+X to cut it.

2. View | Header and Footer. Switch to the footer.

3. In the position where you want the text to appear, type "IF " and click
on the Insert Page Number button; then type " = " and click on the Insert
Number of Pages button, then type a space and two double quotation marks. If
you have, say, 10 pages in your document, you should see:

IF 10 = 10 ""

4. If you press Alt+F9 to toggle field codes, you'll see

IF { PAGE } = { NUMPAGES } ""

5. Select all the text you've typed and press Ctrl+F9. This will convert it
to a field.

6. Between the quotation marks, press Ctrl+C to copy the text you cut from
the document.

7. Press Alt+F9 to toggle field codes back and F9 to update. You should see
your text on the last page of the document and no other.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Guest]

I need to do the opposite, to have a footer on every page BUT the last one.
When I prepare documents, I have a place for people to initial on each page,
however, on the last page the full signitures appear so there is no need for
initialing. What I need is a different last page footer. If I do it as a
workaround, I need to be careful since the documents tend to have a lot of
revisions and the last page could change anytime.

 

[Doug Robbins]

Use

{ IF { PAGE } = { NUMPAGES } "" "text for pages other than the last page" }
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Hope this helps.

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Or use

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

I've seen it suggested that TrueText is more reliable than FalseText; I
don't know whether there is any foundation for this allegation or not.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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