I need to add page number (Page 1 of X) starting from say 5th page in the word document. How to do that. The code I have adds to the entire document and I am unable to control it. I am using Word interop in C#. Please help.
oDoc.ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.SeekView = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.WdSeekView.wdSeekCurrentPageFooter;
//Object oMissing = System.Reflection.Missing.Value;
oDoc.ActiveWindow.Selection.TypeText(" Page ");
Object TotalPages = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.WdFieldType.wdFieldNumPages;
Object CurrentPage = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.WdFieldType.wdFieldPage;
oDoc.ActiveWindow.Selection.HeaderFooter.LinkToPrevious = false;
oDoc.ActiveWindow.Selection.Fields.Add(oDoc.ActiveWindow.Selection.Range, ref CurrentPage, ref oMissing, ref oMissing); oDoc.ActiveWindow.Selection.TypeText(" of "); oDoc.ActiveWindow.Selection.Fields.Add(oDoc.ActiveWindow.Selection.Range, ref TotalPages, ref oMissing, ref oMissing);
In order to (re-)start numbering in the document a Section Break is needed. The follosing example demonstrates how to insert a "Next Page" section break just before the target page, then format the new section's footer for page numbering to start in the section at 1.
Note I also changed the assignment to TotalPages on the assumption the total page count should be that of the new section, not of the entire document.
//Go to page where page numbering should start
string pageNum = "3";
wdApp.Selection.GoTo(Word.WdGoToItem.wdGoToPage, Word.WdGoToDirection.wdGoToNext, ref missing, pageNum);
Word.Range rngPageNum = wdApp.Selection.Range;
//Insert Next Page section break so that numbering can start at 1
rngPageNum.InsertBreak(Word.WdBreakType.wdSectionBreakNextPage);
Word.Section currSec = doc.Sections[rngPageNum.Sections[1].Index];
Word.HeaderFooter ftr = currSec.Footers[Word.WdHeaderFooterIndex.wdHeaderFooterPrimary];
//So that the footer content doesn't propagate to the previous section
ftr.LinkToPrevious = false;
ftr.PageNumbers.RestartNumberingAtSection = true;
ftr.PageNumbers.StartingNumber = 1;
//If the total pages should not be the total in the document, just the section
//use the field SectionPages instead of NumPages
object TotalPages = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.WdFieldType.wdFieldSectionPages;
object CurrentPage = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.WdFieldType.wdFieldPage;
Word.Range rngCurrSecFooter = ftr.Range;
rngCurrSecFooter.Fields.Add(rngCurrSecFooter, ref CurrentPage, ref missing, false);
rngCurrSecFooter.InsertAfter(" of ");
rngCurrSecFooter.Collapse(Word.WdCollapseDirection.wdCollapseEnd);
rngCurrSecFooter.Fields.Add(rngCurrSecFooter, ref TotalPages, ref missing, false);