adjusting page numbers   

I'm making a document. I don't want the cover page or the table of contents 
numbered, and I want page 1 to start on the page after the table of contents. 
I've managed to get this to work, however, my page numbers are in the format 
of page 1 of 10. The 10 is including the cover page and the table of 
contents. Is there a way to adjust this so the page numbers only include the 
main portion of the document?
I've tried to manually adjust the 10 to read 8 (minus cover page and table 
of contents), however, doing this means that if any more pages are added to 
the body of the document still keep the number page 9 of 8 and so on, .
Any suggestions?
thanks!

date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:39:02 -0700   author:   yourbrighteyes

Re: adjusting page numbers   

yourbrighteyes wrote:
> I'm making a document. I don't want the cover page or the table of
> contents numbered, and I want page 1 to start on the page after the
> table of contents. I've managed to get this to work, however, my page
> numbers are in the format of page 1 of 10. The 10 is including the
> cover page and the table of contents. Is there a way to adjust this
> so the page numbers only include the main portion of the document?
> I've tried to manually adjust the 10 to read 8 (minus cover page and
> table of contents), however, doing this means that if any more pages
> are added to the body of the document still keep the number page 9 of
> 8 and so on, .
> Any suggestions?
> thanks!

There are a couple of ways.

I assume the way you "got it to work" was to insert a section break between 
the table of contents and the next page, and restart page numbering at page 
1 in the second section.

If the document is now exactly two sections, and will always be exactly two 
sections, there's a very simple fix. In the "Page X of Y" format, the "Y" is 
now a NumPages field (which always shows the total number of pages in the 
document). Right-click the field, choose Toggle Field Code, and change that 
to a SectionPages field. Press F9 to update, or go to Page Preview and back.

The other method is more suitable if there are (or could later be) more than 
two sections in the document -- for example, if you insert section breaks in 
order to make a landscape page in the middle of the document. Insert a 
bookmark on the last page and name it, for example, LastPage. Then replace 
the "Y" field with a PageRef field containing the name of the bookmark, in 
this example {PageRef LastPage}. You do have to be careful not to delete the 
bookmark or overwrite it, and if you add more pages at the end of the 
document then you will have to relocate the bookmark to the new last page.

-- 
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP        FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
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all may benefit.

date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:57:42 -0400   author:   Jay Freedman

Re: adjusting page numbers   

Thanks so much Jay. It worked :)

"Jay Freedman" wrote:

> yourbrighteyes wrote:
> > I'm making a document. I don't want the cover page or the table of
> > contents numbered, and I want page 1 to start on the page after the
> > table of contents. I've managed to get this to work, however, my page
> > numbers are in the format of page 1 of 10. The 10 is including the
> > cover page and the table of contents. Is there a way to adjust this
> > so the page numbers only include the main portion of the document?
> > I've tried to manually adjust the 10 to read 8 (minus cover page and
> > table of contents), however, doing this means that if any more pages
> > are added to the body of the document still keep the number page 9 of
> > 8 and so on, .
> > Any suggestions?
> > thanks!
> 
> There are a couple of ways.
> 
> I assume the way you "got it to work" was to insert a section break between 
> the table of contents and the next page, and restart page numbering at page 
> 1 in the second section.
> 
> If the document is now exactly two sections, and will always be exactly two 
> sections, there's a very simple fix. In the "Page X of Y" format, the "Y" is 
> now a NumPages field (which always shows the total number of pages in the 
> document). Right-click the field, choose Toggle Field Code, and change that 
> to a SectionPages field. Press F9 to update, or go to Page Preview and back.
> 
> The other method is more suitable if there are (or could later be) more than 
> two sections in the document -- for example, if you insert section breaks in 
> order to make a landscape page in the middle of the document. Insert a 
> bookmark on the last page and name it, for example, LastPage. Then replace 
> the "Y" field with a PageRef field containing the name of the bookmark, in 
> this example {PageRef LastPage}. You do have to be careful not to delete the 
> bookmark or overwrite it, and if you add more pages at the end of the 
> document then you will have to relocate the bookmark to the new last page.
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Jay Freedman
> Microsoft Word MVP        FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
> Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so 
> all may benefit. 
> 
> 
>

date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:03:28 -0700   author:   yourbrighteyes