Re: NumPages Error back in Word 2007

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Hi Ji Zhou

Thank you for your reply and welcome back to a new year.

The issue is not PDF-related at all. To recreate the error, follow the steps
below:

1. Create a new Word 2007 document
2. Insert a page header with the values Page "pages" of "numpages" fields,
like Page 1 of 3.
3. Add 3 pagebreaks
4. Save the document in Office 2003-format (.doc)

When you open the document, the first page says Page 1 of 3. The other pages
says page 2 of 4, 3 of 4 and so on.
If you open Printpreview, first page says Pags 1 of 2 until you click the
document.
then it corrects itself to Page 1 of 4.

It is this behaviour that causes us problems when we try to create PDF-files.

Thanks in advance for any help

Best Regards
--
Peter Karlström
Midrange AB
Sweden


"Ji Zhou (Wicresoft)" wrote:

Hello Peter,

Seasons Greeting!

As to the NUMPAGES issue you post, I have searched in our internal data
base. I do find a similiar issue reported before like the one you talked.
The following is some background,

Numpage Field code in textbox in headers/footers does not update when saved
to PDF.Field codes in a text box in the header or footer do not save to PDF
correctly. Instead of showing as 1 of 5, 2 of 5 , 3 of 5, etc, the result
shows as 1 of 1, 2 of 2 etc. But any subsequent save as PDF in the session
after the XPS, results in a correct listing of the fields. Printing to
postscript or pcl printer also does not properly update the field code.

Therefore, let's go through the following steps to see if it will fix it.

1.Save your document to XPS file for the first time.(we will reproduce the
issue).

2.Left the original document opened and save it to PDF format. This time we
should see the NUMPAGES field update correctly.


If this is exactly the same issue as you encountered. Please wait for a few
days for the release of Office 2007 SP2. The issue will be fixed in the SP2
which is supposed to be released in the early 2009.

By the way, wish you a happy Christmas in advance!


Best regards,
Ji Zhou
MSDN Newsgroup Online Support




"Peter Karlström" <HayRoller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:156D32C7-8EBA-4426-803B-316B9225768A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi

This question concerns a NUMPAGES bug, when the value is not updated when
the document is printed.
I've read a lot of articles regarding this error for the previous versions
of Word, and as I understand, fixes have been made to these versions.
However, I have not found one for Word 2007.

The COMAddin I have created for Office 2007 runs on client computers.
But when the user wants to create a PDF-file from the document, the
PDF-file
is rendered on a server. The server have no COMAddin to force update.

The result is that in the header of page 1 it says Page 1 of 1. On the
following pages it says Page 2 of 4, Page 3 of 4 and so on.
This does not update as i should when printed.

Is there a configuration solution to this or is there a fix out there that
I
have not found?

Thanks in advance

--
Peter Karlström
Midrange AB
Sweden


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