MS Word for Mac - page numbers not working

I agree with Jimmy. As MS Office is not an Apple product and there are not as many Office users active here as one would think, MS Office questions posted in these forums tend to linger a long time before getting any kind of helpful response.

MS made their forums less user-friendly than before by making it harder to limit answers to Mac subjects, but it can be done when you know the trick, Start here:

Results in Office - Microsoft Community.

That will display this page header:

1) Use the “Office Topic” pull-down to select your Office app.

2) Limit answers to Mac topics with the “Office Sub-topic” pull-down.

3) If needed, use the “Show Filters” option to further narrow the results.

Everyone there is both and Office user and a Mac user, something you can't say about Apple's forums. I believe you will find the contributors there knowledgeable and very helpful.

Doesn't your school have a computer support center? Ask them.

Create a new account on your machine. See if problem persists. I this works, some preference got messed up.

Solutions with a hassle factor:

-- post question on microsoft site.

-- Complete document. Take to a friend with a working Word. Turn on page numbers.

-- https://www.lifewire.com/free-microsoft-office-alternatives-1356334

-- try free beta version of macos. Don't up grade. try on separate disk.

R

FYI. When in crunch mode, don't change anything. You should not be running latest version of mojave. I'd be on High Sierra.

How to create a new user account on the Mac

lots of x clicking to get rid of adds.

https://www.imore.com/how-create-new-user-account-your-mac

stephgauth Said:

“I have had intermittent issues with inserting page numbers into my papers.”

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Help Menu:

For starters, use the Help Menu in MS Word.

Chatting with Microsoft:

If that is of no success, then have a direct chat session with Microsoft. Start Here: Contact Us - Virtual Agent - Microsoft Support.

Found something interesting. word fields code. basically, word is an editor that inserts field code in to a document. kind of like an html edtor.

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/field-codes-listnum-field-557541b1-abb2-4959-a9f2-401639c8ff82?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US

to see the field codes type option + f9 to get rid of type option + f9

I could not figure out how to work with {page}

R

either port the document over to pages or ask over at the Microsoft support site.

Word is not an Apple product, support is entirely up to MS.

Word can be clumsy on Apple products. I have both 365 and Pages, Numbers, Keynote on my mac.

When I run into an issue with an MS product I usually turn to the Apple equivalent. The exception is outlook. Corporations and schools like to run Exchange servers, macOS mail can get weird with it.

Have you imported the document onto a machine running windows and office?

You could insert the page numbers manually. I had to add my own numbers to ordered list looking structures.

Writing a word macro would facilitate the generation of page numbers.

R