Adding Envelope Image To Word Document Causes Document Page Counter To Be Incorrect (Increases By One)

Question

Microsoft Defelopers See Case #1046739620.

When an Envelope Image is added to a Word Document, the page number/counter is incorrect. Example, a one page Word Document with a page number of page 1 of 1 will show correctly as this. But if you add an Envelope to the Document the page number will show as page 1 of 2. The Envelope Image was added to the total number of pages.

Microsoft will correctly identify the page number of the first number of your Document but apparently Microsoft failed to implement two page number counters. One for the total number of pages in the document and one for the total number of pages in the whole file. In lower left corner you can see in my example that you would be on the second file page of 2 total file pages as it will show as 2 of 2 but on the Document itself when you add the page counter, it will show as page 1 of 2 when it should be page 1 of 1.

The obvious reason for this problem is because Microsoft Developers only used one Total Page Counter which happens to be the total number of pages in the file. Microsoft should have implemented to Total page counters. One for the total number of pages in the Document and one for the total number of page in the whole file. This would have taken care of the problem.

Answer 1

Another suggestion is not to add the envelope to the document and create envelopes from a template see https://www.gmayor.com/Simple_Envelope.htm

Answer 2

The reason people keep pointing you to feedback mechanisms is that this is not the place to get any changes made in Word nor the attention of developers at Microsoft. This is an independent user-to-user support forum. MS does not see anything you post here. The way to get their attention is through the feedback mechanisms.

• How do I give feedback on Microsoft Office?
• Send Feedback to MS Developers
• Bonus Reading related to MS Feedback system

Answer 3

Raise the issue via the Feedback facility under the Help tab of the ribbon.

Answer 4

While it does not show a page number by default, the number of the page that contains the envelope is page 0 by design because if the pages of the letter are numbered, you would NOT want the first page of the letter to be numbered as page 2.

Where if may become an issue is if Page x of y page numbering is being used. If that is the case and there was only one Section in the document before the Envelope was added, the thing to do is use a SECTIONPAGES field instead of a NUMPAGES field for the y. If the document contains multiple Sections before the Envelope is added, then use the following field construction for y

{ = ({ NUMPAGES } - 1) }

Answer 5

Hi JimBi!

Thank you for writing to the Microsoft Answer Community Forum, I am Shakiru, an independent advisor and a user like you, and I am glad to be helping you out today.

Thank you for this recommendation.

Please send the recommendation to the feedback portal via this link https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/

Thank you once again.

Kind Regards, Shakiru