I have a document created in Word 2007. It has several sections with page numbering formatted as Chapter-Page number. The document map shows "Section 1", "Section 2"... etc. Page numbers show 1-1, 1-2...2-1, 2-2... etc. This is just what I want.

My computer was upgraded to Office 2013. When I open the document in Word 2013 the document map shows "Section 1", "Section 1", "Section 2"...etc. (Two sections 1). The page numbering is now 1-1, 1-2...1-1, 1-2...2-1, 2-1...etc. (Chapter 1 is numbered correctly but each subsequent chapter number is one less than it should be.



The Table of Contents shows "Chapter 1...1-1", "Chapter 2...2-1" as it should. But if I have all chapter headings on the same page the TOC still shows the chapters beginning 1-1, 2-1, 3-1 etc even though they are all on the same page.

Nothing I do will make the chapter part of the page number match the actual chapter number (except for chapter 1).

I am also having a problem with chapter numbering in page numbers. I have documents with a page number in the footer in the form <chap>-<page>. With Office 2007 there was no problem. I was upgraded to Office 2013, and in a document that contains more than one chapter, the page numbers for the second chapter and up contain the chapter number-1, i.e. in Chapter 6 the page numbers start with 5-. The chapters are separated by section breaks, and each chapter starts with a chapter title and Heading 1.

I was the pilot for our department upgrading to Office 2013, but due to this bug we are probably not going to upgrade to Office 2013, and I will be returning to Office 2007 shortly.

I vaguely recall an issue with the STYLEREF field in Word 2013... Have you tested the document after installing Service Pack 1 for Office 2013?

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

Microsoft 365 apps for business
Windows 11 Professional

Hi Stefan,

I installed service pack 1, and it fixed the problem! Thanks for your reply.

That is good news. Thank you for the update.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

Microsoft 365 apps for business
Windows 11 Professional