This applies to WORD 2003. For page numbering select page numbering and
format the page numbers to 1, 2, 3 etc.
Then from the Header/Footer dialog box choose from the Insert Auto Text
drop down box "Page x of y".
All the pages will look like this "Page 1 of 10" or whatever number of
pages the document has.
You can insert the current date the same way. You may only have a
selection of USER, PAGE, DATE to choose from. You can always delete what
you don't want after choosing insert.
Are you sure that the over type your seeing is not from existing data such
as a Page Number?
I don't have an earlier version available to test...
Bob J.
Guam U.S.A.
At12:57 PM 5/18/2006, Bernie Cosell wrote the following message:
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>This with word XP [= word 2002 I think]. I'm running, again, into a
>longstanding [I think] problem with Word and I was wondering if there are
>any fixes/workarounds/patches for it [i doubt there are patches, because
>my copy of word is fully patched]:
>
>1) Doing section numbering in a footer, I'm trying to get "Page X of YY"
>to work, but all I get is "x of x" [that is, page 1 is "page 1 of 1",
>page 2 gets "page 2 of 2", etc].
>
>2) I'm getting a garbage character at the end of the date [again, in the
>footer]. I have something like "last update date" [basically the date
>the file was last saved] in the footer, and what prints is something that
>looks like a "1" overprinted on the last digit of the year [and so when I
>just printed it tonight, it said "17 May 200{6/1}" those last
>superimposed [and I think [but I'm not sure] it is a '1' -- it is
>*something* superimposed there]. I can't imagine where that's coming
>from...
>
>I tried googling but "word bug" or "section page numbering bug" or the
>like, but I couldn't find much of anything useful.
>
> /Bernie\
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