Edit Total Page Numbers in Word 1

[HRingman]

Hello,

I am updating a document someone else created at work in Microsoft Word 2007. There are 24 pages in the document, and the first page is the cover page and has a page number 0. On the pages after that, each footer has "Page 1 of 24" and so on. Because there was a page 0, then the very last page of the document says "Page 23 of 24." I want to know if there is a way to put "Page 1 of 23". I realize I could just type in "23", but I'd rather it be a code that updated automatically.

I know how to insert the total number of pages, and I know how to insert the number of pages in a specific section. But is there any way to insert the "total number of pages -1"? Or, there are 3 sections in the document, is there a way to add up the number of pages from different sections? I tried editing the field code for NumPages, but I don't quite understand the field codes and it just kept coming up with errors.

Thanks for your help,
Heather

 

[fumei]

Assuming (and I hope it is case) that you have a Section break between page 1 (or your 0) and the page 1 (2 of the document), then:

1. start the page numbering at 1 for th enew section

2. put the following into the footer

{PAGE} of {=SUM(NUMPAGES},-1}

Use Ctl-F9 to insert the field brackets. It does not work any other way. The result will be:

1 of 23
2 of 23
....
23 of 23

Gerry

 

[HRingman]

Thank you, that really helped. I couldn't actually get it to work the way you wrote it, but messing around a bit, I got {Page} of {=sum({numpages},-1)} which finally worked.

Thanks again,
Heather

 

[fumei]

Ooops, yes you are of course correct. I missed the opening { of NUMPAGES and the closing ) of SUM.

I just typed it directly (ah, too quickly! and did not look closely...ahem) into my response.

Glad you worked it out. Thanks for the star.

Gerry