Is there a way to make page number references relative?

Mr. Analogy wrote:
I use Publisher for our product catalog. There are a lot of "see page X" in
it.

In MS Word you can do a Ref to a bookmark on a page. So if the bookmark
moves, the page # ref gets updated automatically.

Since Publisher doesn't have a global search (find "5" and make it "6") this
makes is VERY VERY hard to keep all the page number references current.

Any suggestions?

Mr. Analogy,

I just did a test pub to try to answer your question.

I made a text box on page one of a three page pub, and another text box
on page two.

text box one had the properties set to include "continued on page #"

I then put text into box one, and linked it into box two.
text box one said "continued on page 2", I edited that line to say "See
page 2"

I then moved text box two from page two to page three, and the "See page
2" line in text box one became "See page 3" all by itself.

Perhaps you can adjust this to meet your needs.

yes, I had considered that (and thanks for confirming that it works).

However, this is for things in a table of contents. So :

1. I'll have multiple references (one text box will reference 5 or 10 other
pages). The method you describe lets one textbox reference only one other
textbox.,

2. I have on control over the descriptive text (it's always "continued on
page")


I need to be able to have:

Product 1...page 3
Product 2...page 5

And when product1 moves from page 3 to 12 then the above # gets updated.

I'll try looking under "table of contents".

Thanks for trying.

"Steve in NC" wrote:

Mr. Analogy wrote:
I use Publisher for our product catalog. There are a lot of "see page X" in
it.

In MS Word you can do a Ref to a bookmark on a page. So if the bookmark
moves, the page # ref gets updated automatically.

Since Publisher doesn't have a global search (find "5" and make it "6") this
makes is VERY VERY hard to keep all the page number references current.

Any suggestions?

Mr. Analogy,

I just did a test pub to try to answer your question.

I made a text box on page one of a three page pub, and another text box
on page two.

text box one had the properties set to include "continued on page #"

I then put text into box one, and linked it into box two.
text box one said "continued on page 2", I edited that line to say "See
page 2"

I then moved text box two from page two to page three, and the "See page
2" line in text box one became "See page 3" all by itself.

Perhaps you can adjust this to meet your needs.