Page Numbers and Section Breaks

[afw]

I'm using office 07 home in compatibility mode.
I have a 30 page document.
The first 2 pages are unnumbered
The numbering starts on page 3 with the number 1
The document contains a number of section breaks
The numbering is ok for about 3 pages and then breaks down and jumps around
-- I can't find a pattern
I have removed and replaced all the footers
I have linked and unlinked all the footers
There may be something wrong with the section numbers because it seems like
some numbers are missing
I have spent hours on this and am out of ideas -- please help

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If you're just looking at the section numbers as you click through the
header/footer and one is missing, then the likelihood is that you have a
"landlocked" (perhaps multicolumn?) section in the middle of a page, and
this may be where page numbering is set to restart. Find this section and
put your insertion point in it. Then select the Insert tab, find the Header
& Footer group, click on Page Number, choose Format Page Numbers... from the
menu, and choose "Continue from previous section."

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

 

[afw]

Yes, I have some sections in the middle of pages and they contain tables and
the sections with the tables have different margins.

 

[afw]

Suzanne -- that does not seem to be solving the problem. But I think there
are "landlocked" sections. any other suggestions?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You should not need to create sections for the tables. You can make tables
any width you like without changing the margins.

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

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If you have "Continue from previous section" selected in the Page Number
Format dialog for every section, then it should work. Just make sure you
don't skip any sections.

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

 

[afw]

OMG it worked -- removed all the sections and the problem resolved. Some
sections kept reappearing and I had to be persistent in deleting. Thanks so
much!

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Not sure what you've actually done (if section breaks are needed, they
should not be removed), but I'm glad it seems to have solved the problem.

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