On Sunday 23 May 2004 07:56 pm, Craig Bradney wrote: (John Culleton wrote) > > I tried to put the page numbers on the left and right > > page templates per the instructions. The instructions > > say "Ctl+#" without the quotes of course. So I held > > down the Ctl and the shift and keyed #. That put the # > > character there in the text block for the footer. > > > > However when I insert e.g., page 2 in the document > > using the template the # remains and there is no > > substitution of a page number. > > > > What am I missing? > > It means you are inserting the # character and not the > page number. It is a problem on various keyboard layouts. > The best suggestion is choose your favourite unused F > key, eg F7 and reprogram the pagenumber insert code to be > that instead.
Somehow the function got transmuted to Alt+(shift of course) +#, and that combination works. It took me a bit to figure out how to reprogram a key, but since the above combo works I will not fiddle further. ON to page 13! -- John Culleton Able Typesetters and Indexers http://wexfordpress.com
