
One other seemingly probable option was using Quick Parts to import the chapter number from the section and adding the page number ( – Example 2). I’ve tried telling it to continue page numbering starting on page 2, and on page 6, which had a different section break to allow formatting changes to occur between pages 5 and 6, but all only show up as A-1. It does pull in the Chapter designated from the linked heading style, and page 1 of Appendix A shows A-1 as desired, but so do the remaining 10 pages of Appendix A. “Note In Word 2007 and Word 2010, click Breaks on the Page Layout tab.”). I’ve tried all options, and the one that nearly was successful was Example 2 (which I have already sent a correction to Microsoft for the Note under step 1 to use section breaks not page breaks (i.e.

I’ve gotten to where it appears Linda was too, with using Chapters linked to a Heading Style ( ) to identify each Appendix letter with the page number. Trying to create a new page numbering format that includes those options has been unsuccessful as well. If you manually add the A- before the page number, it doesn’t carry over to the TOC. We are trying to have the Appendices A-E show up in the TOC with page numbering corresponding to each Appendix (i.e. docx), these older documents exhibit very bizarre behavior that cannot be recreated when starting from scratch in a clean 2010 document.Īs for my issue (and Linda’s), this again is a regenerated document from way back, and has eleven different sections within it.
#START A HEADER SECTION WITH A LETTER SCREENSTEPS UPGRADE#
With the drastic changes that came with the Word 2007 upgrade (.doc to. What I’ve discovered is that these documents that refuse to display the chosen page number type used in the various sections of the document are typically documents originally created in Word 2003 (or earlier), and which have been updated and re-saved umpteen times since being created so long ago. I’m my firm’s In-House Trainer, and I’ve been battling a similar issue.

Note: If Section numbers, etc., are not showing up in your Status Bar at the bottom of your screen in Word, click here for the tutorial on customizing the Status Bar. (And for those of you missing the “Suppress Header/Footer” and “Header/Footer A/B” feature in WordPerfect, here’s your compensation: this allows you to have infinite sets of headers and footers in your document, not just two!) Now, I know this seems complicated, but I promise, once you get the hang of it, you’ll understand the logic behind the use of sections to control distinct headers/footers.

