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- From: pf@bilbo.bio.purdue.edu (Paul Furbacher)
- Subject: Re: Page numbering in Word/Win
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 08:15:19 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec28.190659.13569@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>,
- ianbjor@helium.gas.uug.arizona.edu (Ian D. Bjorhovde) writes:
- >
- > Hi,
- >
- > I was wondering if there is a way to do reverse numbering in Word - I
- > want to number the pages of my table of contents: v iv iii ii i...
- >
-
- What a novel idea! What comes after "i" indicated by your
- use of ellipsis? Can you have "-i" as a number in this
- scheme?
-
- Have I had too much time off for the holiday to figure out
- your reasoning for reverse page numbering? Sounds like a
- pretty goofy scheme.
-
- To answer your question: the only way to do this, to my
- knowledge, is to "insert|breaks|section-break|next-page"
- for each page, then "insert|page numbers|format|
- number-format|i-ii-iii-iv||page-numbering|start-at|X"
- where X is the page number. Each section gets its own
- page number, one page per section. Its rather manual,
- but since your approach is, let's say, non-standard (or
- I'm just showing my ignorance -- please disabuse me of
- it if you can), the programmers/designers probably
- never gave it much thought to make this feature automatic.
-
- Too many other things to pay attention to while programming
- word: somehow the idea of non-modal "Find" and "Replace"
- dialog boxes got lost in the translation from the Mac to
- the PeeCee. Just one of a host of oddities with W4W.
-
- Have fun getting that scheme past any thesis format office or
- editor/publisher!
-
- PF
-
- . Paul Furbacher
- . Dept. of Biological Sciences
- . Purdue University
- . West Lafayette, IN 47907-1392
- . pf@bilbo.bio.purdue.edu
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