Let’s see… I go to Insert / Page numbers and I can place the page number in the header or footer. Now, How do I get rid of it!!! You’d think it would be in the same place.
Also, how can i place the page number in the body of the text, not header or footer?
The reason I want to do this is that I want to print checks and the trick I have used in the past to print the check number is to use the page number. Maybe someone has a better way of doing it? Can I insert one number an have other numbers go sequentially?
I think you can edit a header or footer by double-clicking on it, or by picking Header/Footer under the View menu. However, I admit it’s been a while since I’ve used Word 97, and this may only work with Word 2000. Failing that, why not ask the paperclip? He can probably also help you with inserting the number into the document itself.
I’m away from the office - hell, I’m unemployed right now - and working at home with a Mac and Word 98, so grano salis.
You should be able to double-click on that page number you inserted. This takes you to the header or footer. Now, try clicking on it again - click all around it. It took me a few tries, but you eventually get to select it - it’s “anchored” - and then you can zap it. This was true on 97 for Windows as well if I recall.
We did this recently. It was generally agreed that the page numbering system in MSWord97 was invented by agents of the devil.
I’ve written a thesis and a book in Word, and both times the page numbering was a fiasco. I actually ended up numbering the thesis with a typewriter for chrissake.
This thread won’t help you with your problem, sailor, but it does address an actual bug in the program that sometimes comes in when you number them as Page X of Y.
Although I admit that Word is not the smoothest program in the world, I have successfully numbered the pages of dozens of documents with it in my time. I think it’ll work if you’re patient enough, Grok, but anyone who uses a typewriter is patient in my book.
Achernar having a declination of S57 is beyond my field of view.
I think I did not make my questions sufficiently clear (I am quite mudlled myself). Let me try again:
(a) I need to print the same number twice on each check, at the top corner with a normal fornt and at the bottom with the special MICR font. (b) Checks need to be numbered consecutively.
Several ways of doing this:
(1) Does MS-Word97 have a function which will allow me to put a number somewhere and it will repeat it below then add one on the next check etc… For example if you would want to number each printed copy of a document with a consecutive number
(2) Alternatively, I could use (as I did in DOS-Word) the page number but how do I insert the page number in the middle of the text, not header or footer?
as for Bob, the clip helper, I hate him! Both useless and annoying! There ought to be a law against things like that. I mean I know it’s a free market but there has to be limits!
But seriously, you asked your question fine. I never meant to give you the impression that I was answering your second question. But, lest Achernar disappoint, I managed to scrounge up a copy of Word 97, and I asked the paperclip:
How do I insert the page number into the body of a document?
Oh look. One of the choices under “What would you like to do?” is “Position page numbers anywhere on the page.” Here’s what is says:
That last “How?” there is a link to something else that I found useful:
[Quote] Position a frame by dragging[ul][li]In page layout view, select the frame by moving the pointer over the frame’s border until the pointer becomes a four-headed arrow. Then drag the frame to a new position.[/ul][/li][/Quote]
I managed to do what I believe you want. It was kind of hard to find the four-headed arrow, but it was just to the right of the number itself. I think you’ll probably be able to get it, but if not, or if I misunderstood the question, let me know, and I’ll try to explain better. Incidentally, even if the page number is not physically located within the header or footer, it remains part of them, so if you want to edit it, you’ll have to double-click it again. Hope that helps!
Incidentally, though, I think it’s kind of unfair to dis the paperclip and also say how you can’t get help in Word. But anyone who knows Achernar’s declination is a friend of mine.
To print (or duplicate) the current page number in at a given spot in the main text, position the cursor at the desired spot, then select “Insert”, “Field”, then look for the “PAGE” field entry and select it. The “Options” button provides some goodies.
In that same “Field” pane, you will see a “Categories” column on the left. The “Numbering” category contains the “PAGE” field and other numbering fields which might be of use.
Word97 tables may also be useful in what you’re trying to do.
well, after some hours of messing about I finally did it. Word97 is so counterintuitive … I now have place where I can plug in the number of the first check and it will print four checks per sheet with sequential numbers on them.
zgystardst, that insert/field was quite a discovery for me. I still have to study it further but it does what I wanted. I use a formula (insert/field/formula) from that meanu but I have found you can do the same thing using table/formula even if you are not in a table. Anyway, I have more or less resolved the issue. I did not use the page number approach.
Achernar, thanks for that too. I have been looking into it and have learnt some more about numbering pages, etc. I still find it all quite counterintuitive.
Regarding that paper clip (I believe his name is “Bob”) I absolutely hate it! Whenever I start typing a letter “Dear Molly…” ding! stupid Bob comes out and says 'it looks like you are writing a letter…" and I have to click on the darned thing to make it go away. Then, when I am looking for help it says “type your question here” so I type my question and the suggested answers are realted to what i asked only in the vaguest way if at all. I don’t think that was a good idea.
There is just a lot I still have to learn about this program and it is already obsolete. I hate having to learn new stuff continously.
Well, I know in Word 2000, there’s a paperclip named Clippit, so I was hesitant to call the one in Word 97 Bob, but if it’s named Bob, then I’ll call it Bob. I guess I’ve never had the same problem as you - every time I ask it a question, I get what I want. As for the popping up thing, I don’t know if there’s a way to nullify it, but I’ll bet if there is, I could find it by asking, “How do I keep you from popping up like that?”
IIRC, the obnoxious paperclip is named Clippit in Office 97 as well, but the technology behind it came from Microsoft Bob, which was a full-fledged product that attempeted at making the operating system more user-friendly, some years back - but as you would expect, it’s dumbed-down and clumsy instead. (Just wait 'til you get your hands on either Office 2000 or Windows ME and their “personalized menus.” Hint: no, you don’t get to decide how to personalize the menus, Microsoft does, yeesh!)
Clippit and the other Office Assistants are stored under a directory (probably c:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\Actors), and you can permanently get rid of them by deleting all the .ACT files. There may be a chance this will screw up Office (one never knows), so some people suggest using the Control Panel to get rid of them, but I’ve done it with no problems, and you get the added satisfaction of personally blowing these guys to oblivion.
haha, you gave me an idea and I got a laugh. I don’t know it’s name. I thought it was “Bob” but it may be “Clippit” (sounds like a frog). Now that I look at it I believe the official name is “Office Assistant”
I asked it “How do I get rid of you?”. Options in the reply:
About changing letter elements quickly
Create a template
About fields
About Find Fast
Getting Results - What’s New in Word
and it goes on and on with things like that
Then I asked : “Why are you so fucking annoying?” and it answered:
What would you like to do?
Change Office Assistant
Turn off toolbar sounds
Change the size of Office Assistant…
At least they are vaguely related to the question. I am sure If I search hard and long enough there is a way to disable it.
Unfair? Makes perfect sense to me. I’d rather not get help than use that paperclip. I’d rather not do the job. I’d rather be unemployed.
The very WORST part about the paperclip is when you make it go away, the cute animation continues for a few seconds (your machine tied up meanwhile). It won’t just go away plainly - it has to go away cutely. Paperclip morphs into a bicycle and rides away, and variations on the theme.
Someone should be punished for that.
See if this makes it go away forever: click “Help with something else” on the Paperclip, then Options, then uncheck “Use the Office Assistant.” This would the the kosher way of zapping it without risk to your system, I think.
I also detest Clipit and the rest, and it was with great relief that I discovered how to get rid of them (possibly at this site):
Go to Program Files-Microsoft Office-Office-Actors. Change the name of this file to NonActors. Voila. The nice thing about this is that it’s reversible, should you ever have a yearning for that smug wink.
I think this can be corrected by going to the Tools menu, selecting Options, and selecting the General tab. Deselect “Provide feedback with animation.” But I’m not positive because I’ve been free of this pestilence for the past year.
Gee whiz, don’t you guys have anything better to take out your spite on that the Office Assitant (which I’ll call Boppit as a comprimise)?
I wouldn’t go changing filenames and stuff, unless you actually know what you’re doing. There’s a perfectly safe way to get rid of it which I found just by asking. I entered “How do I get rid of the Office Assistant?” I then picked on “Troubleshoot the Office Assistant”, under which there are several ways to make it less obnoxious. One is “I can’t turn off the Office Assistant”, so I clicked on that, and the last option under there is a well-documented and easy-to-understand explanation of how to uninstall components of Microsoft Word.
One time I was backspacing like two lines’ worth of stuff, and a little light-bulb appeared above the Assistant (I think I was using the cat at the time.) which I then clicked on. It told me that if I hold down Ctrl while I backspace, it goes faster. That was really helpful. I use it all the time now. And you have to admit it’s funny when you print something out, and Boppit squishes its body out through its eyeballs.
I also entered “I know some people who hate you. Are you gonna take that?” and picked on the option “How to make the Office Assitance kick rear” (presumably edited for sensitive users). At this point the paperclip donned a karate mask and started doing kicks with its loose end. Unfortunately, I don’t have the “kick rear” add-on installed, but it was capable of taking names. I entered all your names into the table, so watch your backs.
Um, Achernar, I agree with you that the Office Assistant can be quite helpful, but … don’t you know how to select text? Either use the mouse, or hold down Shift and hit the UP arrow twice, to select the two lines, and then just hit the backspace or delete key once. Much easier…
Oh, yeah, I do, but when I’m backspacing, I think backward. I don’t tend to think ahead as in “what’s the last (first?) word that I want to delete?” Rather, I obliterate the phrases in reverse order, in my head, and on the page. And come to think of it, I do often press Shift-Ctrl-Left to select text and then hit Delete, but I guess Ctrl-Backspace is easier since it’s only two keys.
