Depending on your needs, you may want to create two independent page-numbering systems within the same document. This is not unusual, particularly in technical documents. For instance, in the header of each page you may want to show something like 'Page 2 of 7,' which means you are on the second page out of seven in the current section. On the footer of the same page, you may want something like 'Page 34,' which means you are on the thirty-fourth page of the entire document.
It doesn't work to just specify that the numbering in headers restarts at 1 in each section and the numbering in the footers continues from the previous section. While you can independently link headers and footers with their counterparts in the previous section, you cannot do that with page numbering. Page numbering is handled on a section-by-section basis; you set it once for each section, and it affects the page numbers used in all headers and footers for that section.
Since page numbering is a section attribute, you cannot have two distinct numbering schemes in the same section. Word does not provide fields that you can use for such a purpose. These are the only page number fields provided by Word:
Using these fields, it is impossible to do develop two numbering systems, because the PAGE field is the only field that represents an actual count that increments with each page.
Those familiar with fields may also think about using the SEQ field. This field is very useful for many purposes, but directly counting pages is not one of them. You cannot use a SEQ field in your header or footer. Doing so results in an error indicating that the SEQ field can only be used in the main document.
This means that you need to actually come up with some way to run two independent counters. One counter will serve as the page number within the current section, and the other will serve as the page number for the entire document. There are several ways that you can tackle this problem, but the solutions tend to be rather involved. For that reason, I will describe the first solution here, and then provide links to the other solutions.
To place two numbering systems in a document, follow these general steps:
Page {page} of {pageref {section \* Alphabetic}}
{= {pageref A} + {page}} of {numpages}
{= {pageref A} + {pageref B} + {page}} of {numpages}
This may seem like a lot of work, but there is currently no way around it in Word. There are variations that you can try, as listed in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base articles.
Word 97: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/155199 Word 2000: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/212313 Word 2002 and 2003: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/291283
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