Hi everyone,

Ok, this should be such a small thing but its driving me up the wall. I use mac office (the newer one), and I really don't want to use master document to put whole thing together as it seems to always cause major stress! So I just want to be able to carry on the page numbers from one chapter into the other! This should be a simple, format page numbers start from: 53....etc. However, it does this fine for the first page of the next chapter, but my document seems to have cut itself into sections, and at the start of each section restarts at page 53 again! I can't seem to be able to remove this section formatting and its starting to drive me insane! I have tons of work to do and this should be a seemless task....!

Everything like this,styles etc always seems to go from being a simple 5 minute job to endless messing around - and i promise you all i'm not a computer idiot! :)

Any help with this would be amazing!
Cheers, AL

Ok no worries, i've just managed to fix this the moment I posted this! typical! :$

For anyone struggling with this in future (although maybe its just ditsy me!) each section formats its own page numbers, so at start of document use start at number:, but then scroll to top of each section and change to continue from last section!

Feel very stupid now, as it was so easy! right, time to do bit of reading before risotto making! :p

hi Alpacalover
I also use MSOffice for Mac (2008), I haven't experienced this problem.

Its very hard to offer any help especially if we cannot see the document infront of us (!) so cannot fix it on the spot :-)
Office on Mac is easier (and faster) a lot of times but on Windows, it seems to be more flexible (like you can change page layout on the same document), cannot do this on a mac (or I don't know how).

My suggestion to you is to take the word doc file to a windows computer, fix the page numbers from there
and then continue on the mac. If the MSOFfice on the pc is not the latest one, it will still work when you use it on your mac later.

happy satchi

hi again
I'm taking note of your post, it is a great tip
thanks
satchi

Thanks for response Satchi, hopefully this should be ok now! but yeah not as easy to always do certain formatting things on macoffice! luckily have access to windows too, but I find it does mess up all that styles and figures sometimes, so try to do it all with mac if possible!

fixed now though - phew!

I actually found it easier to join everything into one combined file, shortly before I submitted. Then when I printed to PDF ready for printing and binding it all came out as one file, and I didn't have to join things. I use an ancient Mac Office - Mac Office v.X from about 10 years ago!

Glad you solved your problem. It's the sort of fernickety thing that can be a real hassle.

Glad to be of any use Satchi!
Thats interesting Bilbo, I have started a master document bringing in subdocuments etc, and had planned to use this! But I keep hearing people who are collating at the moment saying its an absolute pain in the a**! I'm sure I will give it a try, but then if i'm formatting as I go along it might make it more troublesome and mess everything up! Will cross that bridge when I come to it I guess as it's quite a while away! :(

Hope you're enjoying your relaxation time Bilbo, you got a viva date yet?

No viva date yet, and since my internal has just been changed it must be ages off. My supervisor suspects end of March. At my university the viva's typically within 6 weeks of submission though. Have started very gentle viva preparation, but have mainly been resting. And haven't had a viva nightmare yet, though I had plenty of submission nightmares before submission!