Page Numbering

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Word 2002, all SPs, updated, etc.
Single document, only one section, no section breaks, a couple of manually
inserted page breaks. .

I want page numbering to start at say, 5, and count sequentially as normal,
to the end.

When I set the starting page number though, the ending page numbers are
incorrect.

In other words: Say it's a 10 page document.
Page x of y shows page x, x+1, etc., of 10, correctly.
But when I set the page number to start at say, 5, the numbering for x goes
from 5 to fifteen correctly, but y stays at 10 (9 of 10, 10 of 10, 11 of 10,
12 of 10 ... and so on. E.g. 'y' does not increment starting at the ending
'x' value of 15.
At first I thought it was just having to update the fields, but no; the
scheme remains no matter what I can think of to correct it.

I've perused several of the related MVP articles and Google but nothing
seems to addess this particular scenario.
Probably obviously, this is part of a larger problem boiled down to its
simplest form the best I can and in which the problem is easily evident, so
manually renumbering isn't acceptable and the one script I found that is
purported to work looks, well, too complex for me simply because I do not
write scripts. Yet. And I DO have to support the end product. I feel like
I've done this before, but darned if I can get it to work again!

Can anyone suggest what I'm doing wrong or what I'm missing?

I guess another way to phrase it might be: How can I get the field numpages
to be numpages + the value of x?

TIA for any advice,

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[Jay Freedman]

The field {NUMPAGES} is just a count of the number of pages in the
document, no more and no less. If you want the *displayed* number to
include the "missing" pages that aren't at the beginning of the
document, you're going to have to modify the field to be a formula
field.

If the first page is numbered 5, then the tenth page will be numbered
14, not 15. (In other words, the page number shown on the first page
is page 1 + 4, so the last page will show 10 + 4.)

To make the "Y" in "X of Y" show the correct number, then, you need to
replace the {NUMPAGES} field with

{ = {NUMPAGES} + 4 }

The easiest way to do that is to start with the existing {NUMPAGES}
field, type the = to its left and the + 4 to its right, then select
the whole expression and press Ctrl+F9 to make a field of it.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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D'oh! Thank you! Clear & concise, too. And yeah; I get the 4 vs 5
comment; a momentary aberration<g>.

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