Page number indicator

[Alan]

A feature of my MS Word 2003 documents is that a page number is shown at the
foot (not in the document itself) that shows where the current page is in the
sequence of the document; e.g. 34/56.
This feature has disappeared from my programme and I cannot find a way to
get it back. It is important to me in my work that I should regain this
feature.
Can someone please help me?

 

[DeanH]

Your description is a tad vague.
1. If you cannot see the Footer (and Header) area(s), the see
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/WhiteSpace.htm.
2. If you do see the Footer area, double click in this, does the Header and
Footer Toolbar appear, the Page number icons are on this toolbar.
3. Insert, Page Numbers - does this give you your page numbers back?

If none of the above helps, can you describe exactly what you can and cannot
see or do.
DeanH

 

[Stefan Blom]

Are you saying that you are now using Word 2007? If so, right-click the
status bar and use the context menu to display the information that you want.

 

[DeanH]

Oops, forgot about the "recently changed to 2007" possibility, good catch.
Lets see what comes back.
All the best
DeanH

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Stefan has suggested you may have upgraded to Word 2007 and provided a
solution in that case. If you are still using Word 2003, possibly you are no
longer seeing the status bar. If so, check the box for it at Tools | Options
| View. If you are seeing the status bar but not the page numbers, perhaps
you are in Normal view with background repagination disabled?

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Alan]

Thank you, it was the status bar that was missing - I don't know how it
disappeared, I didn't purposefully remove that setting. (I am still with
2003).
Thanks to all for your responses.
Alan

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Thanks for the feedback. It's always helpful to know what helped.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org