Footers 'Same as previous' messed up

[Peter Kinross]

I have a series of docs that are all reasonably the same. One of them the 'Same as previous' (SAP) footers refuses to obey SAP.
See attached. The text in the footers is SAP, but the page number starts again with following pages following on from this page. I have put a box over the text and blurred it for anonymity.
With the other similar docs, there are the same sections and they all work.
How do I fix the footers?

17Mar06Footers.jpg

[HansV]

I only see a filename, not a screenshot...

[Peter Kinross]

I put the wrong screenshot in and deleted it while i re-did another. You viewed it between my editing, sorry. Correct one there now.

[HansV]

Even if a header or footer has been set up as "Same as Previous", you can still specify that page numbering restarts at 1 (or any other number):

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[Peter Kinross]

Thanks Hans.
But - I use this doc frequently and each time the page count when I get to this section is different. All the other similar docs work correctly, but this one doesn't. I think the quickest solution is to rebuild it from one of the other good ones. takes time though.
On thinking back, the last two times I have used this doc, it showed signs of being not right. Editing became delayed and at times just plain stopped. In fact it got so bad this time and the last time I had to continue to edit it using Libre Office (which worked great). When I went back to Word (2007) it said there were parts that didn't convert back. It looked OK to me, but obviously it wasn't.
So a rebuild is clearly the only option.

[HansV]

Your description does indeed suggest that the document has become corrupted.

[Charles Kenyon]

You can download the Add-In for Continuous Page Numbering if you want. http://addbalance.com/word/download.htm ... eNumbering

This is not the same as previous setting for the footer but rather the continue from previous setting for page numbering.

Note that you go from Section 8's footer to Section 10's footer without seeing any footer for Section 9.

[Peter Kinross]

Thanks Charles. rather that further complicate Word 2007 with an add-on, I think I will just re-do the doc.
Thanks again.

[kdock]

You might be able to remove the section breaks and reinsert them. They have been known to go rogue, but might not have taken the entire document alomg.

I'd delete all the breaks hard and continuous, copy and paste the whole document (except for the final paragraph mark) to a new document, and go from there. 'Course, that may be what you had in mind all along...
Kim

[Charles Kenyon]

Thanks Charles. rather that further complicate Word 2007 with an add-on, I think I will just re-do the doc.
Thanks again.

You can load the Add-In for single use.

Otherwise, for macros see http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/offi ... badc47f09f or https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mso ... 768fb13dcf.

[Peter Kinross]

Thanks Charles & Kim.
I have already re-built the doc and deleted the old version. Took a lot less time than I thought - only 20 mins.