Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated November 9, 2024)
This tip applies to Word 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, Word in Microsoft 365, and 2021
Page: 27 Effects of Product A and Product B (Page 1 of 5)The page number at the left is the absolute page number for the document, and the page numbers at the right represent the relative page number and total number of pages in the current section. It would seem that such numbering would be possible, particularly since the same sort of numbers routinely appear on Word's status bar. Not so, however. The page numbering used in Word is a section attribute. This means that you can control the page numbering on a section-by-section basis, but you cannot have two distinct numbering schemes in the document. At least, Word does not provide distinct fields that you can use for such a purpose. These are the only page number fields provided by Word:
https://www.betaarchive.com/wiki/index.php/Microsoft_KB_Archive/291283The page has been retired (apparently) from the Microsoft site, and if you check the archive page, you'll note that it indicates that it applies to Word 2002 and Word 2003. (Yep—over 20 years ago!) Retired or not; old Word versions or not, the techniques described in the article also apply to later versions of Word just fine. (The steps that implement the techniques may require a bit of adjustment, but shouldn't be a big problem for most Word users.)
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