One of my subcribers recently asked me how the page numbers appear in the footer of her document as text, rather than as numerals.
It took some research, but I found the answer for her. If you too have ever needed or wanted your page numbers to appear as text in your document, follow the steps below to learn:
- Click on View | Headers and Footers.
- Once your are in either your Header or Footer:
- Click CTRL + F9 to insert field braces { }. Do not type them in manually, as it will not work.
- Key in:
- page \*cardtext
- between the braces.
- Click on F9 to hide the field code and update the field.
The word “card” in cardtext is an abbreviation of cardinal. Cardinal numbers are the ones we use for counting (i.e. 1, 2, 3), while ordinal numbers indicate the order in a sequence (i.e. 1st, 2nd, 3rd). If you used \*ordtext as a field switch, you would get first, second, third, etc.
If you thought this tip was especially helpful, you can find a whole lot more just like it in my e-Book, which can be found here.