Hi. I'm new here, and I have a somewhat tricky question for which I really need help:



I have formatted a large word document with the Adobe Garamond Pro font. Adobe Garamond Pro offers two sets of numbers: so called "table" numbers and "medieval" numbers. The table numbers are the "normal" ones; they appear when you type a number. For layout reasons, I have replaced all "table" numbers with "medieval" numbers throughout the document (word does not know that they are numbers, it treats them as special characters), using search and replace. This worked without a problem.

The (big) problem are the page numbers: I would like all page numbers to use the medieval numbers as well. But as page numbers are automatically generated, search and replace does not work with them. [And as word does not know that the medieval number characters are numbers, it does not offer them in the page number layout options.] I suspect that this is the case because they are "fields", and search and replace looks at the field algorithm instead of the result of the field. So if anyone knows a way to "freeze" the fields and replace each field with the current result in this field (the doument is done otherwise, the page numbers will not change again), I could then use search and replace on them. All alternative routes to getting the page numbers to be in medieval are equally appreciated.

Thanks for your help!

Hi LitWissOnline,

This should be quite easy to do:
1. Open the header/footer containing the page # field
2. Select the page # field and press Shift-F9 to expose the field code. It should look like '{ PAGE }'
3. Edit the field code by adding a charformat switch, thus ' '{ PAGE \! Charformat}'
4. Select the 'P' in 'PAGE' and format it with the Garamond Pro font of your choice.
5. Press F9 to update the field.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

Hi Paul Edstein,

thanks for your very quick and clear response! I'm afraid my description of my problem wasn't quite as clear -- let me try again: The page numbers are already in the font I want them to be; but they are encoded in the "usual" characters for digits (in Unicode: 0030 through 0039). I would like to replace them with special digits from the same font; they are in the "private use" subsection of the character set, accessible via "symbol". (Unicode: F730 through F739). The question is: how can I replace the usual digits with the "special" ones? It works perfectly well with search and replace within the main text, but search doesn't seem to be able to access the individual page numbers of the page field.

Again: thanks a lot for thinking about my problem!

Hi LitWissOnline,

AFAIK, for page numbering fields, you're restricted to characters from a font's 'normal' numbering set. The reason for this is that the numbers you see are simply the calculated results from the field code. As you saw when you toggled the field code display, there are no numbers in the field itself.

About the only way of getting around this would be to insert 'Next Page' Section breaks at the end of each page, unlink each Section's footer from the previous Section, then type in the numbers. This is not something I'd recommend; for one thing, if you try to print the document on a different printer to what you're now using, the page breaks will quite possibly end up in the wrong places.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]