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One of the most frustrating problems in Word 97 always crops up when you are trying to print those cool page numbers in your header or footer. You know--the ones that indicate Page 1 of 432 (or however many pages are in your document). Word even provides an AutoText entry that allows you to easy add the Page X of Y notation in your header or footer.
The problem is that it doesn't work. At least it doesn't work consistently. Even though everything shows fine when you look at the document in Print Preview mode, when you actually print, the second number always shows as 1 or the same number as the current page number. (It does look odd to see Page 78 of 1 on your printout.)
There are three ways you can start to fix this problem, and all of them mean extra work for you. (Perhaps I misspoke; these are workarounds, not fixes.) These three methods are as follows:
Once you have done any of these three, you need to update the misbehaving field in your document. This means that if the field is in a header or footer, you must first display the field. Then right-click on it (right click on the Y part of the Page X of Y portion of the header or footer) and choose Update Field from the resulting Context menu. Now when you print your document, all should work as expected.
Tip #958 applies to Microsoft Word versions: 97
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