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Set consecutive numbering across sections in Word

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I'm a little late to this conversation, however, this may help others.


My document was over 150 pages and had section breaks throughout. Pagination started over a few times where it shouldn't have, and the "Continue from previous section" option did not work. I turned the Show/Hide tool on and found that the problems was caused by having consecutive section breaks like this:


----------------------------Section Break Continuous)-------------

----------------------------Section Break (Next Page)--------------


I deleted the extra Section Break and then used the "Continue from previous section" option and it finally numbered the pages straight through the document.



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The "Continue from previous section" option is section-specific, meaning that you have to change it for every section. As you have noticed, this is a bit more tricky if there are excessive section breaks present. However, you can always (temporarily) expand a section by adding some paragraphs and then access the Page Number Format dialog box.

Stefan Blom
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