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Subject:Re: page numbers From:Nancy Paisner <nancy -at- HI -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 3 Jun 1996 12:24:22 -0400
> Nancy Paisner said
> >
> >the pages in
> >Chapter 4 all have the string '4-' pre-pended to the page # within the
> >chapter. To set this up in Frame or Interleaf is trivial, to set it up
> >in Word is a complete nuisance.
> >
> I hate to put myself in the position of defending Micor$oft, but I set it up
> in Word with three keystrokes: in the footer dialog, I type "4-#". Am I
> missing something?
It's 3 keystrokes *per chapter*. If you have a book with 17 chapters
and 5 appendices, that means opening up 22 files and performing a
similar set of 3 keystrokes for each, except that you have to be
careful to be sure you don't get one of the numbers wrong, *and* if you
*change* the order of the chapters, you have to go back and change the
numbers, etc, etc. In Frame, the chapter numbers are produced by
setting up the book file, and if you change the order of the chapters,
by changing their order in the book file, the chapter number prepended
to the page number changes automatically. It's one less thing to keep
track of in a complex document. (Interleaf, as I remember, uses a
similar papradigm, where the autonumbering is done on a multi-file
book basis, not on an individual file basis.)
Nancy
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