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hi Ed,

have you checked your parallel port settings in the bios. i remember years ago (must be at least 8 already) that i had issues with an hp printer/windows 98 in combination with port/bios settings. does the bios setting on your computer correspond with /is capable of the same setting as your printer? i faintly remember that the ecp/epp print method was a (buggy) standard jointly developed by ms and hp at the time, and – next to this problem – the printing quality deteriorated markedly when i switched from windows 3.1 to windows 95 and then to 98.

i’ll include an empty document that only contains the field with the described behavior, Stuart or anyone with word 2002 could you test it?

i’ll include an empty document that only contains the field with the described behavior, Stuart or anyone with word 2002 could you test it?

hi Phil,

thanks so much for having a look.
i’ll guess i have to live with it. it is not too big a problem since it will only occur when a document is reduced from 2 pages to 1 page, either through reformatting or after correcting an error. this will only rarely happen.
i’ve checked and rechecked, printing does not refresh the field, printpreview does.
i’ve also verified again that the field patch has not been installed and therefore there is no FieldCalcSecurityLevel registry key.

hi Phil,

thanks so much for having a look.
i’ll guess i have to live with it. it is not too big a problem since it will only occur when a document is reduced from 2 pages to 1 page, either through reformatting or after correcting an error. this will only rarely happen.
i’ve checked and rechecked, printing does not refresh the field, printpreview does.
i’ve also verified again that the field patch has not been installed and therefore there is no FieldCalcSecurityLevel registry key.

instead i recommend working with the png format for pictures, a lossless compressed file format for pictures that is natively supported by word since version 6 at least.

instead i recommend working with the png format for pictures, a lossless compressed file format for pictures that is natively supported by word since version 6 at least.

hi Stuart,

thanks for testing with word 2002 sp2.
i’ve also retested and did the following.
i created a second page and the fields update automatically without any intervention to display 1/2 on the first, and 2/2 on the second.
i created a third page and fields update automatically without any intervention to display 1/3, 2/3 and 3/3.
now for something intresting : if i delete the third page, the fields update automatically without intervention to display 1/2 and 2/2. this is what i understand is normal and standard behavior of word.
if i now delete the second page, the field will not update and keeps displaying 1/2, although there no longer is a second page. if i then print, the result 1/2 will be printed. i have to go into printpreview, or go into the footer to update the field, only then the field result will be adjusted to display an empty result. this is _an error_, either the document became corrupted somehow, or this version of word reintroduced the long standing numpages update bug that has only been solved since word 97 sr3.

hi Stuart,

thanks for testing with word 2002 sp2.
i’ve also retested and did the following.
i created a second page and the fields update automatically without any intervention to display 1/2 on the first, and 2/2 on the second.
i created a third page and fields update automatically without any intervention to display 1/3, 2/3 and 3/3.
now for something intresting : if i delete the third page, the fields update automatically without intervention to display 1/2 and 2/2. this is what i understand is normal and standard behavior of word.
if i now delete the second page, the field will not update and keeps displaying 1/2, although there no longer is a second page. if i then print, the result 1/2 will be printed. i have to go into printpreview, or go into the footer to update the field, only then the field result will be adjusted to display an empty result. this is _an error_, either the document became corrupted somehow, or this version of word reintroduced the long standing numpages update bug that has only been solved since word 97 sr3.

thanks macropod and Phil,

macropod you’re right, as this field will only be displayed on the first page, i can reduce it to 1/{ numpages }
i’m actually glad this glitch cannot be reproduced on other versions of word, so it seems only 2k2sp2 could be affected in theory (for completeness, it is a dutch version build 10.0.4219), lest the document has corrupted. in that case i’ve got some work to do, because it served as a base template with which i created around 120 other templates which exhibit the same problem.
Phil, sending you the document offline.

thanks macropod and Phil,

macropod you’re right, as this field will only be displayed on the first page, i can reduce it to 1/{ numpages }
i’m actually glad this glitch cannot be reproduced on other versions of word, so it seems only 2k2sp2 could be affected in theory (for completeness, it is a dutch version build 10.0.4219), lest the document has corrupted. in that case i’ve got some work to do, because it served as a base template with which i created around 120 other templates which exhibit the same problem.
Phil, sending you the document offline.

thanks Phil & Jefferson,

my explanation of the field logic was not complete & i should’ve used Jefferson’s utilty to paste the field code correctly to the lounge without syntax errors – so here goes:
{IF { PAGE } = 1 “{ IF { NUMPAGES } > 1 “{ PAGE }/{ NUMPAGES }.” “”}“}

the field in itself works correctly, it only prints pages/numpages in the footer of the first page only, if there is more than 1 page. on subsequent pages, the page/numpages result is displayed in the header instead with another field, which does update correctly – but it only checks the page field and not the numpages field.
if i run without add-ins, i still experience the same problem – the field will not update if the second page gets deleted
the patch for the includetext field exploit has not been installed, it is a plain sp2.

so it looks like microsoft’s claim that the numpages field updating issue has definitively been resolved since word 97 “sr3” (the y2k update), is false.
if you want to have a look at an example document i can send it offline.

thanks Phil & Jefferson,

my explanation of the field logic was not complete & i should’ve used Jefferson’s utilty to paste the field code correctly to the lounge without syntax errors – so here goes:
{IF { PAGE } = 1 “{ IF { NUMPAGES } > 1 “{ PAGE }/{ NUMPAGES }.” “”}“}

the field in itself works correctly, it only prints pages/numpages in the footer of the first page only, if there is more than 1 page. on subsequent pages, the page/numpages result is displayed in the header instead with another field, which does update correctly – but it only checks the page field and not the numpages field.
if i run without add-ins, i still experience the same problem – the field will not update if the second page gets deleted
the patch for the includetext field exploit has not been installed, it is a plain sp2.

so it looks like microsoft’s claim that the numpages field updating issue has definitively been resolved since word 97 “sr3” (the y2k update), is false.
if you want to have a look at an example document i can send it offline.

hi Beej,

you can press Alt+F9 to show the field codes & delete the h switch (and the /z switch too of it’s there)
and here’s a macro solution i wrote some time ago.

Sub DeleteHyperLinksFromTOC_TOF()
  Dim TOC As TableOfContents
  With ActiveDocument
    For Each TOC In .TablesOfContents
      With TOC.Range
        Do Until .Hyperlinks.Count = 0
          .Hyperlinks(1).Delete
        Loop
        With .Font
          .Underline = wdUnderlineNone
          .Color = wdColorBlack
        End With
      End With
    Next
  end with
End Sub

hi Beej,

you can press Alt+F9 to show the field codes & delete the h switch (and the /z switch too of it’s there)
and here’s a macro solution i wrote some time ago.

Sub DeleteHyperLinksFromTOC_TOF()
  Dim TOC As TableOfContents
  With ActiveDocument
    For Each TOC In .TablesOfContents
      With TOC.Range
        Do Until .Hyperlinks.Count = 0
          .Hyperlinks(1).Delete
        Loop
        With .Font
          .Underline = wdUnderlineNone
          .Color = wdColorBlack
        End With
      End With
    Next
  end with
End Sub