My problem is that the formatting I am doing on the pagination of a document is not saving. I format the pagination (in the footer), save it, close the doc, and when I open it again, the formatting has returned to what it was before I made the changes. I’ve done this several times now: make the pagination formatting changes I want, save it, close the doc, open it again, and the changes are gone. (Any other changes in the doc I make are saving fine.) 

Background context, in case it’s helpful: It’s a 308-page book manuscript, with chapters. I broke the doc into sections, in order to have the footnote numbering begin again at 1 with each new chapter. I’m a full-time book editor, so this is something I do all the time. When I did it to this file, though, the pagination suddenly began again at 1 at the start of each new chapter (the new sections I created in the doc); that has not happened in the past. Ok, so I fixed the problem by going to the first page of each chapter, double-clicking on the page number, clicking on PAGE NUMBER in the top bar, then FORMAT PAGE NUMBERS in the drop-down list, and choosing CONTINUE FROM PREVIOUS SECTION. By doing this at the beginning of each chapter, I ended up with what I wanted: a doc that’s paginated 1 through 308. But that fix is what’s NOT SAVING when I close the document. 

​My problem is that the formatting I am doing on the pagination of a document is not saving. I format the pagination (in the footer), save it, close the doc, and when I open it again, the formatting has returned to what it was before I made the changes. I’ve done this several times now: make the pagination formatting changes I want, save it, close the doc, open it again, and the changes are gone. (Any other changes in the doc I make are saving fine.)  Background context, in case it’s helpful: It’s a 308-page book manuscript, with chapters. I broke the doc into sections, in order to have the footnote numbering begin again at 1 with each new chapter. I’m a full-time book editor, so this is something I do all the time. When I did it to this file, though, the pagination suddenly began again at 1 at the start of each new chapter (the new sections I created in the doc); that has not happened in the past. Ok, so I fixed the problem by going to the first page of each chapter, double-clicking on the page number, clicking on PAGE NUMBER in the top bar, then FORMAT PAGE NUMBERS in the drop-down list, and choosing CONTINUE FROM PREVIOUS SECTION. By doing this at the beginning of each chapter, I ended up with what I wanted: a doc that’s paginated 1 through 308. But that fix is what’s NOT SAVING when I close the document.   Read More

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