hello, what is the proper VBA syntax to return the footer or header page number (i do not know ahead of time where it will be located. i can take care of the logic, i just need the object.method call to return footer/header page number)

i tried , but this returns the sequential page number not the page number listed in Document at the footer or header (some documents will have a Preface with roman numerals so i need to be able to identify this). thanks

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I'm not sure there is a simple method. You could use the constant that returns the arabic number for that section
Selection.Range.Information(wdActiveEndAdjustedPageNumber)

Do you want the formatted page number (what a field would return if it had no switches added) or an Arabic number? It could be alphabetic or roman numerals for instance.

I think it takes a lot of code to work out the applicable header/footer contents and would probably be easier to insert a Page Field on the page and get that value. A H/F might be linked to preceding H/F and pagenum fields can be in floating text boxes - it gets very ugly to query that info.

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Andrew Lockton
Chrysalis Design, Melbourne Australia

I ran macros on only numbered pages with integer values, 1,2,3 etc... so i need the macros to skip any pages with roman numerals, or no page numbers. so i want to return the footer or header and see if there is a integer page number, if so run number