Custom number sequence for page numbers

I guess the relevant information is that he's working with an ancient language.

Charles has given you the base answer.

BUT if your guy is really insistent he could do it with a custom font. The font would have to be designed with the special numeric characters in place of the digits 0-9. Then he would apply the custom font to the page numbers and Word could then do it for him.

You are welcome. Word, in other languages may have numbers that are different. But they would still be sequential.

Hello,

This forum is a user-to-user support forum. My name is Charles and I am a fellow user with decades of experience using Microsoft Word. I have written extensively on using Word and have authored help articles on the Microsoft site.

Brief answer: No, there is not.
I include links to the following references not to give you a way to do what you request but rather to show some of what is possible.

Here is my writing on Page Numbers in Word:
http://www.addbalance.com/usersguide/sections20...
Here is my writing on the Pagination fields used in Word:
http://www.addbalance.com/usersguide/fields.htm...

Here are pages about manipulating page numbering to produce different results:
http://gregmaxey.com/word_tip_pages/page_number...
https://wordmvp.com/FAQs/Numbering/PageNumberin...

These are links to pages on one or more pages on my website and on one or more sites that I personally trust and vouch for. Those pages contain accurate safe information that I think will help you. However, as an Independent Advisor I am required to give the following notice when providing non-Microsoft links, even to my own site :

Required Notice: These are non-Microsoft websites. The pages appear to be providing accurate, safe information. Watch out for ads on the a that may advertise products frequently classified as a PUP (Potentially Unwanted Products). Thoroughly research any product advertised on the site before you decide to download and install it.

While I can imagine a macro to do this, constructing such a macro would be a fairly major project (i.e. more than a couple of days work) and I can't see it being worth that. Another way to do this would be to set each page as a separate section and individually set the page number. To do that automatically according to a given list would require a complex macro scheme. This would make the document very difficult to edit. Neither method would add this to the page number format menu in the dialog.

The formatted page number in Word is not only the number you have appear on a page but is also reflected in Tables of Contents, Indices, and Cross-References.

Could you tell me what you would hope to accomplish by doing this? It is possible that there may be some other way to accomplish your goal.

I hope this information helps.

Please let me know if you have any more questions or require further help.

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Thank you, Mr. Kenyon! I had run across your very thorough webpage in my initial research on this question.

I'm trying to find an answer for a writer who wants to include page numbers in a multi-language manuscript, using non-Roman characters. I had come to the same conclusion--that it could be done either manually with section breaks, adding the characters as images or possibly Unicode characters, or with some computer programming that would probably take just as long (and is not at all in my or his skill set).

Thanks for a quick response! It's good to have confirmation from an expert.