Page numbers, a real page turner
I have written Word help content for a few years now, and I’ve written for Office products a few years longer than that. All I can say is that it’s a good thing my career isn’t decided by customer ratings for the page numbering help, or I would be out of job right now.
I like what I do, and I like Office customers, so when my friend sent me an exasperated e-mail about the trouble her small PR firm is having with page numbering in Word 2007, I wanted to run screaming from my office. We have tried to address Word page numbering issues every which way … and, if I have explained a page numbering solution, one of my colleagues has explained it again … better. But, that doesn’t mean we’ve succeeded in answering your questions.
I hope this resource list helps more of you than it hurts. I don’t guarantee you’ll find the answer to your Word 2007 page numbering problem, but here is a place to start.
1. Joannie Stangeland’s manuscript video demo is our most recent attempt to answer your page numbering questions.
2. You might need a more comprehensive article that covers inserting text and graphics along with page numbers, X of Y page numbers, numbering formats, and removing page numbers.
3. Page numbers are part of headers and footers. Here’s a video demo that claims to make headers and footers simple (um, I’ll let you decide whether we succeeded).
4. Do you want to remove the page number from the first page and start the second page with 1? Try this page numbering article.
5. This headers and footers training course gets better ratings than most any other page numbering resource. If you have a little extra time, check it out.
Are you having trouble with page numbers? Can you say it better? Leave me a list.
--leslie
