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Originally Posted by macropod
Actually, the approach I suggested above won't work with continuous Section breaks, since you'll get a duplicate count for the first & last pages for the two-column layout and, if the two-column section doesn't span a page break, a duplicate page count for the last Section as well.
Instead, you need to use a field like:
{SET Sctn1 {SECTIONPAGES}}
in your document's first Section (i.e. the Section with the roman numerals for page #s). Then in your second & subsequent sections, use a field coded as:
{PAGE} of {={NUMPAGES}-Sctn1}
There is no need to unlink those subsequent Sections' footers from each other.
See attached.
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Hi. Bringing this thread back from the dead. I had to stop work on this field code stuff for a few weeks, before I was able to try it. Now it's become a priority.
I was able to add this bookmark FC in the first section. Works great. I have a bookmark containing the sum of those i through v pages:
{SET Sctn1 {SECTIONPAGES}}
But in the subsequent sections I confess that I don't know how to change the field codes successfully. Just don't know the exact steps.
My fumbling in "Formula" got me as far as this:
Using this dialog box:
But it just produces this syntax error:
OTOH, This is from macropod's sample doc above and works great:
Can someone walk me through the process of creating the custom field(s) correctly?
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