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Is page x of y possible?

In the version of Word I had before this Word Starter 2010 thing I could put "page x of y" anywhere I wanted. Ever since I got this Word Starter 2010 thing, "page x of y" hasn't happened because I'm not smart enough to understand if it is possible in Starter, let alone figure out how to do it. If anyone knows if page x of y is possible in Starter, and you know of remedial instructions that I may be able to understand, I would greatly appreciate any information you may wish to share on this subject. Thanks, K.

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Although, as Stefan says, many advanced features are not supported in Word Starter, fields certainly are. There are several ways to get Page X of Y.

  1. I believe Word Starter has an Insert tab. On that tab you should see a Header & Footer group with buttons for Header, Footer, and Page Number. All open galleries. The Page Number gallery does include a Page X of Y option, though it has bold numbers (you can select these in the text and unbold them if desired).
  2. Also on the Insert tab is the Text group, with a button for Quick Parts. On the Quick Parts menu is Field. In the Field dialog, you can select Page and NumPages fields for the X and Y.
  3. Perhaps the easiest way is direct composition. You can press Alt+Shift+P to insert a PAGE field anywhere in the document. To insert the NUMPAGES field, type NUMPAGES (or numpages--Word doesn't care about the capitalization), select it, and press Ctrl+F9 to convert it to a field.
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