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So I've been working on my new novel and noticed that I hadn't added page numbers, yet. Okay, no problem. I'll add them in.

*buzz* Wrong. Apparently, I can't do that, now. When I go to the drop-down menu and it lists the options (Top of Page, Bottom of Page, etc) and go to any of those options, all I get is a message that says, "More Page Numbers from Office.com."

I've tried googling it but there doesn't seem to be a solution. Some workarounds, but I don't understand how it works and to be honest, for a 100+ page document, seems needlessly complicated. Is there ANY way at all to fix this problem so it can go back to how it was before?

I know some things won't let you have more than 999 pages, but I assume you're not at that high of a page count?
Which version of Word are you using? 1997/8? 2000/1? 2003/4? 2007/8? 2010/1? 2012/3? 365? (Win/Mac)

--Patrick

PatrThom said:

I know some things won't let you have more than 999 pages, but I assume you're not at that high of a page count?
Which version of Word are you using? 1997/8? 2000/1? 2003/4? 2007/8? 2010/1? 2012/3? 365? (Win/Mac)

--Patrick

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Like I said in the title, MS Word 2010. And I'm currently at 87 pages, but that's before I'll double space it.

It just really bugs me because the pagination had been working just fine before.

ThatNickGuy said:

Like I said in the title

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Pssht. Titles. Who reads those?

(not this guy, obviously)

--Patrick

Actually, you know what? Fuck it. Fuck Microsoft and their ridiculous, pointless changes.

I'm downloading Open Office.

To be honest, I kinda hate open office.

I managed to put in 100 pages on an old manuscript I had, using Word 2010.

Here's the trick: go to page layout view. Put your cursor over a section of the footer. You should get a "Header and Footer Tools" option on the ribbon. Click on the down-arrow under the "Footer" and then "Format Page Number." Just choose "simple" and then format it how you want. Right-click on the number to choose to change what you start it with; the Design Ribbon should have the check-boxes if you want different odd-even and different first page.

stienman said:

Follow the directions in the section "add a custom page number" here:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/w...ers-footers-and-page-numbers-HA010372690.aspx

What your running into is that office is trying to offer you a styled or templates page number, but the styles weren't loaded on your system, or are somehow inaccessible over the internet.

But just adding a field doesn't require the styled or templates, so it should work for you.

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Okay, that did it. It's stupidly complicated for what was once a very simple process.

Yeah, you just described damn near everything between Office 2K7 and 2K10.

FWIW, I still use Word 5.1 for things. Because it works, and because Word 6 was A PILE OF STEAMING ENTRAIL CREAM FILLING.

--Patrick

Office 97 is what made me fall in love with Word and Excel. Everything since has been annoyance.

Lotus 1-2-3 FTW

Tinwhistler said:

Lotus 1-2-3 FTW

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It's still no Lotus 0.

--Patrick

Ahem, my spreadsheets are portable.

PatrThom said:

It's still no Lotus 0.

--Patrick

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I'm pretty sure the first spreadsheet I ever actually did anything on was Visicalc


That looks like an apple 2c, but I remember them in the apple 2+ days.

That's a IIc, all right. I wanted one soooo bad. Never got one, though.
Once I discovered you could get a C64 and run Apple II software on it, my focus went to that.
Never even managed to scrape up enough to get the C64, tho.

--Patrick

Lotus 1-2-3 was my first spreadsheet program. Only once in a while do I miss it, though.

I'm so old school I use pencil and paper.

Clay tablets and styluses for life.

drifter said:

Clay tablets and styluses for life.

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Caves and carbon.

drifter said:

Clay tablets and styluses for life.

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--Patrick

Good thing @Dave came along and invented numbers for us.

Bubble181 said:

Good thing @Dave came along and invented numbers for us.

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Damned kids changed it, though. I still prefer IX over that new-fangled '9'.

Funny thing is, I still have a couple of 1-2-3 spreadsheets that I converted - long long long ago - into Excel spreadsheets.

And I still use one of them on a semi-regular basis (a calendar spreadsheet).

EDIT: Just checked - I converted it to an Excel spreadsheet in November of 1998.

But there are things in Excel 10 that you couldn't do in 97 that I use every day. So I agree with you on one hand but on the other I need 10 for my job.

Bowielee said:

To be honest, I kinda hate open office.

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Microsoft Office >>>> Open/Libre Office >> Google Docs >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Lotus Symphony.

Guess which one I had to use until earlier this year.

Based on the above, some of you may want to read this article.

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/07/dos-boot-ars-spends-a-day-working-in-freedos/
…and its follow-up.
http://arstechnica.com/information-...he-future-a-visual-tour-of-my-day-in-freedos/

--Patrick