In response to a previous post detailing how to have your page numbers appear as text in MS Word, I received an inquiry from a reader, asking:
“How do I get the pagination in my document to capitalize the numbers (words)? And can I get the pagination to read “one of Eight” for instance?
I assured the reader that this can be done and so I will now give you the steps to accomplish this as well:
- To display the page number in capitals, click inside the page number field and press SHIFT + F9 to display the field code. Add \*upper before closing the brace. The code should look like this:
- {PAGE\*cardtext\*upper}
- Press F9 to hide the field code and update the field.
For the total number of pages, you use the NUMPAGES field instead of the PAGE field, so you would end up with field codes like this:
Page{PAGE\*cardtext} of {NUMPAGES\*cardtext}
It is important that you not type the field braces yourself. Either click CTRL + F9 to insert them or use Insert | Field to create a field.
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