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[LakeEarth]

I want to page number only certain pages (I'm writing a thesis, and only certain pages are supposed to be numbered), and I also need it to change from roman numbers to the normal kind somewhere in the middle.

Problem is I can't even do this manually. There is no way to put unique things on each page's footer. The options only allow the same thing on every page, every page but the first, and different on odd and even pages... why the HELL don't they have the option of unique footers/headers per page? It's a fricken word program, it's not like it needs resources or something.

Does anyone know to only number certain pages, or have a footer on only one page? I tried the net but they only show how to page numbers normally.

The only option I can think of is to shrink the footer and put the page number in manually onto the actual, slightly enlarged page. The only problem with this is that I can't number the pages unless I am actually finished writing the entire page.

GOD, how could they leave out such a simple option as unique per page footers?

 

[Jade Knight 08]

Typewriter or Word Processing comes to mind?


Don't mind me, just stating!

 

[Eminem]

i completely fucking agree. that has pissed me off so many times in the past. god.

i ended up just making a new document, pasting the entire page, and just printing out the single page with the one footer. time consuming, stupid, and just unnecessary.

 

[Monk]

The only thing i hate about windows xp is the new setup they have. Classic all the way for me.

 

[rastex]

Section breaks are your friend.

But what's REALLY your friend is LaTeX, oh yes. If you're writing anything greater than 3 pages, LaTeX >>>>>>>> word

 

[Deleted member 1235]

I haven't used word in a while, but if you put section breaks in, does that stop the numbering for the rest of the doc?

EDIT: Crap beaten.

 

[Ford Prefect]

The only thing i hate about windows xp is the new setup they have. Classic all the way for me.

Easily Satisfied Patient of the Year 2001

 

[SD-Ness]

Section breaks are your friend.

But what's REALLY your friend is LaTeX, oh yes. If you're writing anything greater than 3 pages, LaTeX >>>>>>>> word

What is it, why is it better, and where can I get it?

 

[LakeEarth]

Still trying to get this section breaks. I keep hitting it yet I only worked once.

God this thing is a pain. They're broken up, but then it also says "same as previous" so some of them are copying each other, and some of them aren't. Jesus Christ.

Okay, I got it now. You can do it, but it's a big pain. You gotta section break each section, and then you gotta de-link each header/footer to all the others. THEN it works. So retarded.

 

[Pochacco]

MS Word sucks.
It assumes the user is a total idiot and does way too many things automatically for you.

Hmm.
I've always had an MS Word problem: when you're drawing (e.g. a line segment), it always snaps to some grid. Is there a way to turn that off so that you can position objects EXACTLY where you want? So annoying.

 

[mrkgoo]

Pochacco: Not sure if you can turn it off, but you can use the cursor keys to position anything in finer detail (and hold down shift, or control or something to move it in larger increments). A more painful way is to right click, and edit the actual position values exactly what you want.

 

[DonasaurusRex]

Heh good luck with that MS word is probably one of the biggest most bloated program evar, with billions of lines of code, they dont know what they are doing anymore with that thing. Maybe try separating your thesis into different files numbered and un numbered after its all done?

 

[Deleted member 1235]

How microsoft word works is like this

1. do it absolutely right from the start of the document.

If you don't then unscrewing something screws something 15 pages down the document. then you print it and say "fuck"

Once you have all the features sorted, then things like automatic table of contents etc work really well. It's all about section breaks and formatting your text types (heading1,heading2 etc)

 

[Screenboy]

Quark Express owns you!

Spoiler

although I don't know how to do what you want in it

 

[DarienA]

Hmm.
I've always had an MS Word problem: when you're drawing (e.g. a line segment), it always snaps to some grid. Is there a way to turn that off so that you can position objects EXACTLY where you want? So annoying.

One option is to put whatever you are drawing in a text box, the text box can then be moved independently of the page.