Hi LitWissOnline,

AFAIK, for page numbering fields, you're restricted to characters from a font's 'normal' numbering set. The reason for this is that the numbers you see are simply the calculated results from the field code. As you saw when you toggled the field code display, there are no numbers in the field itself.

About the only way of getting around this would be to insert 'Next Page' Section breaks at the end of each page, unlink each Section's footer from the previous Section, then type in the numbers. This is not something I'd recommend; for one thing, if you try to print the document on a different printer to what you're now using, the page breaks will quite possibly end up in the wrong places.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]