Word 2010 consecutive page numbering in a document where several pages, midway through, must not to be included in page count...How?

We have a document with 5 sections, and it needs to be consecutively page numbered from 1 to 30. However, several pages must also be provided as 'attachments'  at the end of Section 2, and those pages must NOT be page numbered.

Complicating matters further, is the fact that as required text is entered into Section 2, Section 2 may grow unpredictably by a page or two, before the 'extra' pages need to appear.

We fully understand how to consecutively page number a document across multiple sections, but Word's built-in page numbering does not appear to be able to handle this kind of complex scenario.  There seems to be no way to tell Word to not include certain pages in the overall page count, yet consecutively auto-number all the other pages from 1-30.

Does anyone know of a way to accomplish this, other than the obvious (but impractical, for us) workaround of printing the document, then inserting the 'extra' pages? 

Answer
Answer

You need to insert a bookmark at the end of Section 2 and assuming that the name of the bookmark is Section2, then for the numbering in Section 3, format the page numbering in that section to start at 1 and use the following field construction in the footer or header where the page numbering is to appear

{ = { PAGEREF Section2 } + { PAGE } }

where you use CTRL+F9 to insert each pair of Field Delimiters { }

You would need the same field construction in Sections 4 and 5 and format the page numbering in those sections to continue from that in the previous section.

Hope this helps,
Doug Robbins - MVP Office Apps & Services (Word)
dougrobbinsmvp@gmail.com
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Last updated October 5, 2021 Views 585 Applies to: