Forum Discussion
Page numbering and chapters
I'm putting together a song book that has all my chords and lyrics. I've managed to get a table of contents and page numbering to work. But then it dawned on me that if I add more songs after it is printed I will have to reprint the whole book. I'm already up to almost 200 pages.
So I figured it would be best to divide it into sections where my page numbers would be like 1-1, 1-2, 1-3...,2-1, 2-2, 2-3, etc Then If I add more pages I only need to reprint part of the appropriate section or worse case the whole section.
Problem is when I try to do this I get an error message about assigning multilevel lists to headings. When I try to do that now I get numbers in front of my song titles instead of page numbers at the top of the page.
Can someone please help me do this in a step by step fashion that makes sense. Help files assume the user knows more than they do.
- Hi RickMase, what you are needing to do is create Sections through Headers & Footers for your pages & their numbers rather than multilevel lists which focuses on the Table on Content / Styles in a document (which is why it put numbering in front of your songs). Here is some information that may help you (Just research: adding headers and footers for different sections of a document):
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/configure-headers-and-footers-for-different-sections-of-a-document-94332643-a6e9-46aa-ab29-064f1d356db6- Thank you for your reply. I think I understand doing what it suggests but should I undo all the previous stuff to remove the multi-level list and how do I do that?
Will this give me page numbers in a 1-1, 1-2, ... 2-1, 2-2... format? I think I was going down your suggested road when Word told me I had to make a multi level list in ordee=r to get the page format I wanted.- Unless you want multi-lists then remove, this has no bearing or impact on page numbering. Page numbers are affected by page breaks and the types of breaks you use. A continuous break will affect your numbering and you may have to right click and assign numbers. Double click into your Footer, there are different Footer parts that can be used. Customise it as you need to: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/add-page-numbers-to-a-header-or-footer-in-word-46d6dfe5-f99b-40d8-8809-be4808a291f4
