I have a large document which provides guidance for staff on many subjects associated with their employment in our company. When policies are amended we want to publish just the revised 'chapter,' so I've referenced the pages as Chapter c, Page x of y Pages. 'c' is sequential through the document, changing at each section break, 'x' and 'y' are reset at the beginning of each section. So far, so good.

There are two places in the document where the page orientation changes within the chapter, in order to accomodate organisation charts and flowcharts. I've done this by adding additional section breaks, but I now need to revise the page numbering to reflect the fact that these chapters are now made up of several sections. I can avoid resetting 'x' at the beginning of each subsequent section after the first section in the chapter, but I can't find a way of continuing the sequential numbering of the total number of pages in the chapter.

Can anyone suggest a solution, please?

Estuardo, el Rebelde

Page orientation shouldn't affect this issue. It's not clear to me what you may be doing differently from any other part of the document.

Thanks for your reply. The explanation of the problem may be complicated by the fact that my definitions of the words 'chapter' and 'section' may differ from those of Microsoft.

So far as I understand it, one needs to make a new section (MS definition) in order to change the page orientation and another to change it back. Therefore, the sections (MS) are no longer analogous to the subject chapters. The problem comes from the fact that my page numbering system has been set up as Page x of y SectionPages, designed to show the total number of pages in the chapter.

Maybe there's a way of defining a 'chapter' within Word. I'll have a look along that path.

Estuardo, el Rebelde

Hi Estuardo,

For the chapter that spans multiple Sections, you can use 'continue from previous' numbering for the 'X' part of the 'X of Y' numbering for the 2nd & subsequent Sections in that chapter. However, for the 'Y' part, you'll need to sum the number of pages for those Sections and insert it manually (there are field coding techniques to work around this, but they're a bother to implement). Note also that, when you change page orientation, Word also changes where the page #s go. If you want to keep them in the same physical location, you'll need to put the numbering for the landscape portion(s) into a (borderless) textbox or frame.

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