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Here's what has worked for me in similar circumstances, though it may be too
much work for you at this point.
I use a place-holder heading 1, then make it hidden so that it doesn't show
up in the text (of course, if your heading 1 IS the chapter number, no
problem!). Then when I insert page numbers, I format it to include chapter
# (which by default is heading 1). For subsequent documents, I force
heading 1 to start with 2, then 3, and so forth. The result is that pages
are 1-1, 1-2, 2-1, 2-2, 3-1, 3-2, and so forth.
Good luck.
Cheers!
Al
-----Original Message-----
From: Michele Davis [mailto:mdavis -at- bitstream -dot- net]
Sent: Friday, June 09, 2000 10:31 AM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: Word Hell
OK, I posted a couple days ago. Here is what I have:
separate files, 50+ of them. Creating an index and then using the {RD}
command to link all the indexes to one another. I want to use
Insert|Page Numbers, to insert chapter and page numbers in my footers.
Yet when I do use that function, I do not get the chapter number
displayed in my footer. If its chapter 18, I still get 1-1, 1-2, etc. I
designated Chapter 18 as a field code, and selected use Heading 1 in the
Insert|Page Numbers dialog.
