Exclude some pages from page numbering

Question

Hey,
I create an RTF template to produce PDF output.
I want to exclude some pages from the page numbering.
Does someone know how this may be possible?
Thanks for your assistance
brgds,
David DC

Answer 1

I think I was "nearly" able to achieve what you want to achieve.
I used Word 2003 - just in case and 5.6.x (hope it doesn't matter).
You need to create two section breaks:
Page 1
--- Section Break ---
Page2 - No page numbering
--- Section Break
Page 3- (which will show page number 2).
For the first page you can pretty much hard code the page number.
For the second page you go to the header and
1) Select "unlink to previous" from the header/footer toolbar
2) Remove the page numbering from the second page.
For the third page (section 3) you go to the header and:
1) Select "unlink to previous" from the header/footer toolbar
2) Remove the previous header
3) Insert the page number, select it with the cursor
then select "Format Page Number" from the header/footer toolbar.
4) In this dialog box you select under page numbering "start at": 2
5) Insert the total number of pages, select the field with the cursor
then select "Format Page Number" from the header/footer toolbar.
6) In this dialog box you select under page numbering "start at": 2
FUNNY - in Word it still stays Page 2 of 3 in the header of the third page, but
when I run it with XML Publisher I get Page 2 of 2.
So I get after the run for the page header of a 3 page document:
Page 1 Header:
Page 1 - NO PAGE TOTAL - I get to this later
Page 2 Header:
NO PAGE HEADER
Page 3 Header:
Page 2 of 2
Now how do I get the correct page number onto the first page - I tried a trick and it worked...
1) Insert a bookmark (ie. name test) behind the last word of your document - on the last page. Menu: Insert bookmark
2) Go to the header of the header of the first page behind:
Page 1 of
3) Now select from the menu Insert: Referernce -> Cross reference.
4) Select refernce type "Bookmark" ,
Insert refence to "Page Number"
Select reference to test.
Worked for me... Let me know if that is what you wanted to achieve and if it works for you.
Klaus