I have a rather large document that I formerly had regular page numbers at the top right of each page (i.e., nothing special). I somehow inadvertently created 3 sections, which I deleted (after finding out how to do this on-line)--now it's all in one section. I went back to page 1 and went to "insert" and "page number" and then chose the one showing a number in upper right corner.


I've added page numbering to Word documents countless times in the past, and the expected result was a "1" at the upper right corner of the first page (and sequential numbers after that to the end).

As you can see below, the Page number comes out looking like some sort of "field merge codes" (I think that's the term), rather than a simple Arabic numeral "1".


Experimentally,I created a new document and tried the same procedure, and got identical results, so it seems more likely that it's some setting I inadvertently changed rather than something specific to the document.


Any ides would be appreciated.


RJ
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