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Guessed · 06-15-2020, 05:38 PM

iSpeedyG

I've watched your video and you are trying to solve problems that have arisen because you don't understand the basics of how Word works and you are trying to do something overly complex that doesn't align with normal page layout principles. Extracting the copy from a book and then applying mark up is going to result in large departures from the original pagination. How you are trying to deal with that won't end well.

You need to reconsider your approach. What does the end result look like in your head? Does it read like a book with page numbers that increase by one on each page. Or is it a conglomeration of markup where a page of the book becomes 1, 2 or 3 pages of content and each 'original page' starts a new page irrespective of whether it is the middle of a paragraph or not.

You won't get to either of these ends with all the section breaks you currently have. The primary complexity of your document is due to the huge number of Section Breaks in your document. This probably started when you converted from PDF but it is the biggest single source of your confusion. Every section break brings with it a unique page setup (the paper and margin sizes) as well as up to three different headers and footers. You probably have well over 100 sections in your document which would mean you have 100 potentially different page setups and 300 different headers, and 300 different footers.

If you want to solve your inconsistencies then you need to start by removing ALL section breaks to get a single consistent page setup throughout your document.

Your next problem is you are trying to get the page numbering in the header to be somewhat arbitrary. Sometimes you want it to increase per page and other times you want it to stay the same as the previous page (for book pages that spilled over with content). If this is the case, you should be using blank headers and footers and place a 'header-like' paragraph with a hard coded (typed) page number every time you want to indicate this is a new physical page from the book.