[comp.sys.mac.apps] Auto Section Numbers in Word 4?

howard@alpha.la.locus.com (Howard Moskovitz) (12/06/90)

I am writing a large document in Word 4 and I am splitting it into
multiple sections. I cannot figure out from any documentation how to get
Word to automatically insert a section number in a header or footer. Its
obvious how to getthe page number, but I would like to number my pages
with a scheme of "Page X.n" where "X" is the section number and "n" is
the relative page number of that section. I cannot figure out how to get
"X" other than hard-coding it in the header.

Anyone have a solution? Also, does anyone know if there is a way to
force a section to have a particular number, i.e., I want my intial
section, the cover page and table of contents to be section 0 and
section 1 to be my first chapter.

Thanks in advance,
Howard Moskovitz
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mike@cc.sfu.ca (Mike Dustan) (12/08/90)

Word 4 does not have a variable for section number as it does for page 
number. You'll have to hard-code it.

a544@mindlink.UUCP (Rick McCormack) (12/09/90)

Problem: creating an index or table of contents that shows the sextion as well
as the page number.  I.E.

Chapter 14 ........14-1

Biorhythyms  ......14-3

I solved the table of contents as follows:

Highlite the listing for the first section; Use the "change" dialogue box and
change "...??" to ".2-??"; then click in the "change selection" box.  Note that
I use the dotted leader tabs to provide the "....." between the header and the
page number, and this allows me to set some known characters as the beginning
of the "find" string.  This is necessary when using the "?" as a wild card in
the find command.  Otherwise the command will *find* every character in the
hilited area.

(Find "?" will *find* every ASCII character, including spaces;   find "a ?b"
will find every occurrence of an "a" followed by a space followed by any
character.)

Hope this is of some help.
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