Hi,

It's important for me to keep a balance of each chapter in my thesis in terms of number of pages.

I'm trying to find a way to make a list of sections in my Word document with the total number of pages of each section indicated next to them.



Alternatively, a table of contents with the total number of pages of each level would also be fine (because the level 1 heading in TOC could show me the total number of pages, which is basically a section in my doc, as well as the sub levels).

Any ideas please?

Word has a SECTIONPAGES field. If you put that into the header/footer of a given Section, that Section's page count will appear on every page.

In any event, if each Section starts with a Heading and your document has a Table of Contents (TOC), you should be able to calculate the # pages for each Section at a glance from the TOC.

Anything fancier would require a macro and the figures returned would be static (i.e. they wouldn't auto-update as you edit.

In any event, theses are usually expressed in word counts rather than page counts.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

Many thanks for your prompt reply.

I was actually aware of the field, but was just looking for a way to make a list with sum of pages for each section, just like the table of contents. But I understand the only way is to go VB.

I did some VB in the past. Do you happen to have an inspiring piece of code at hand?

Thank you for your time.

You can bookmark page fields at the end of each section and put those in a summary page somewhere in your document. Is there a reason for restarting numbering for each section?

Thank you for your suggestion, but I was looking for a way to identify how long each section (or the header in my TOC) is (as a matter of fact, I'm interested in how many pages each Chapter is basically). Otherwise, your suggestion could act like a TOC not depending on 'paragraph level's (and thanks for introducing bookmarks to me

I could just use a calculator and check with the TOC and do some calculations, but you don't know what your automation passion will lead you

Meanwhile, I've tried a VBA code with the following piece of code with no joy

....
For Each sect In doc.Sections

ee = sect.Range.ComputeStatistics(Statistic:=wdStatisti cPages)

....

You could put a field coded along the lines of:
{SET Sctn# {SECTIONPAGES}}
into each Section (e.g. in the header/footer - but only if they're not linked to the previous Sections), where # is the Section No., then insert cross-references to the Sctn# bookmarks wherever you want the output to appear.

If the above field is inserted into the Section header/footer, a Print Preview should be sufficient to update it. Selecting your cross-references to the Sctn# bookmarks and pressing F9 would then update that, too. If it's somewhere in the body of the document, pressing Ctrl-A, F9 would update the lot. No VBA required.

Note: The field brace pairs (i.e. '{ }') for the above example are all created in the document itself, via Ctrl-F9 (Cmd-F9 on a Mac); you can't simply type them or copy & paste them from this message. Nor is it practical to add them via any of the standard Word dialogues.

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Cheers,
Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

Thank you!
That actually solved the problem. The {...} text becomes invisible once run, and works like a charm.
Perfect!