

Instead, the PAGE field assumes the style used by the text wherever the field is inserted.

If you instead insert a page number by using the Field dialog box, then the Page Number style is not applied. The Page Number style is also applied automatically if you use the Page Numbers command from the Insert menu. With the above being said, you need to understand a potential "gottcha." The Page Number style is only used for page numbers inserted into a header or footer using the Insert Page Number tool on the Header and Footer toolbar. If the page number is not formatted correctly, change the Page Number style to reflect what you need. After you make the changes in your template files (including Normal.dot), open your existing documents. The second place to make the change is in any currently existing documents. If you are working in Print Layout view, you can double-click on the header or footer. (This assumes, of course, that you have already inserted the page numbers.) For instance, you can make the page numbers bold, italic, change their size, etc. This will allow any future page numbers, in new documents based on those templates, to reflect your desired appearance. In Word you can format page numbers just as you would format any other text in your document. First, you should make it in your Normal.dot file and any other templates you may have defined.

You should note that there are a couple of places you should make the changes. Locate the style, change how it is formatted, and then all your page numbers will reflect the changed formatting. For page numbers, the style name is called (appropriately enough) Page Number. Word uses styles for all of its default formatting. The answer is quite easy-just change the style used to insert the page number. Pat wants to know how he can change the default font for inserting page numbers into a header.
