single character page numbering (with no hyphen)

[Writer]

Are you applying the same right/left master pages to the TOC as you're 
applying to the body chapters, or did you create a different template 
for the TOC? When you update the book, is the Apply Master Pages option 
cleared?

Nadine

On 15/02/2010 9:14 PM, Ken Poshedly wrote:
> FM8.0 on a Windows Vista platform
>
> I'm sure there's a simple answer for this, but I've really tried all
> I can think of and can't seem to find a way to get rid of the
> preceding hyphen for a page number within a footer.
>
> Like it or not, I'm trying to place just a single, lower-case Roman
> numeral in the footer of my TOC. So with the file open and Master
> Pages view selected, I choose Format>  Headers&  Footers>  Insert Page #
>
> What I get is a hyphen preceding the pound-sign variable or
> placeholder or whatever it is.
>
> I've checked Format>  Document>  Numbering and tried to make sure
> there is nothing in the Chapter box.
>
> I've checked Format>  Paragraph Designer>  Numbering (just to see if
> a hyphen is included in the numbering equation) but there is no
> numbering scheme to found there at all.
>
> I've checked Special>  Variable>  Edit Definition and deleted the
> unnecessary building blocks for Current Page # (leaving only
> <$curpagenum>  with no preceding hyphen) and, for whatever reason,
> that didn't work.
>
> Note that in the rest of the book, I do use a chapter number with
> hyphen with page number combo. But I don't want it that way in the
> TOC and I don't want to designate the TOC as section 0. No comments,
> please, on my choice of document or numbering decisions.
>
> So short of actually typing in an i and an ii and so on, what else to do?
>
> -- Kenpo in Atlanta
>
>
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