needing one page not to be numbered

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i am working on my thesis and as per the rules major sections have to be seperated by a title sheet that is niether numbered nor counted and hence not shown in the TOC. i have Word 2003 and i need to know how to do this.
 
Ooh, very tricky. Assuming your thesis is due soon and that you are filing
a printed copy, the easiest way is going to be to insert the title pages
after printing (before photocopying). Even if you are submitting via PDF,
the PDF-creation program should allow you to insert the title pages after
creating the one big PDF.

It's difficult to completely convince Word that pages in the file are *not*
part of the document. Conditional fields can let you fudge the number that
appears on the page in the way you want, but the TOC will pick up the actual
page number, not the fudged one, so I don't think those would work for you.

DM
 
I agree with Dayo that just inserting the pages afterward would be much the
simplest, but if you must file the document electronically, then you'll have
to insert section breaks around the pages, restarting numbering in each
subsequent section. Needless to say, this should not be attempted until
editing is complete. If I were in this situation, I would do my best to meet
the requirements and then, *after* receiving the degree, go and have a chat
with the graduate school and point out that this requirement is insane. Not
only is it an unnecessary burden on degree candidates, it is counter to all
publishing conventions, whereby every page in a book *must* be numbered
(counted) even if it doesn't display a number.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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Electronic submission at the few schools I've heard of doing it is in PDF,
not Word, but I would be curious to know if there are any schools crazy
enough to accept it in Word.

Okay, I just tested this in Acrobat 4 on an OS 9 Mac. It's annoying and a
hassle, but it worked. You could create the title pages, convert title pages
and thesis to PDF (requires pdf creation program), then in Acrobat insert
the pdf title pages into the PDF thesis, and it makes no difference to your
pagination or the TOC. Don't know if the cheap/free PDF creation programs
let you manipulate the PDF to insert pages, or just print to PDF.

But I agree with Suzanne that you make an official and negative comment to
the grad school about this, after graduating. Requiring students to
learn/access an expensive Acrobat program is out of bounds. Also, lots of
people post here for thesis help, and none have had this issue, meaning your
school is way out of the mainstream, though of course all schools have
individual requirements.

Suzanne, how would section breaks work? I can't come up with any way to
both do this in Word *and* use the auto-generated TOC. Of course, I guess
degree candidates could type the TOC, half probably do anyhow. But that is
also an unreasonable burden on them.

Dayo
 
As I say, you'd have to restart numbering in each section from a specific
number (one more than the last page number in the previous section). The TOC
would pick up these numbers correctly, but it would be an incredible hassle
if there are (as I'm sure there are) many chapters.

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

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You need to start a new thread for this question, which is not related to
the subject of this thread. And you'd probably be better advised to post it
in microsoft.public.word.printingfonts.

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

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dr j said:
can you diredct me regarding a printing problem. when i write a letter, i
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have no problem printing. as soon as i develop a related envelope, it will
only print the left side of the page of the letter. prints the envelope
fine.dave
 
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