Adding Chapter or Section Numbering to Page Numbers in Word

There are times when you may have a requirement to use page numbering that also contains the chapter number - for example, 1-7, 3-21, etc.

This can be achieved quite easily, with a few small changes to your Word Publishing template and an AfterPublish macro.

To Add Chapter Numbering to Page Numbers:

1. Open your Word Publishing template.

   This is defined under the Document tab of the Book Object, and in most cases is inherited from the template your Book is based on.

   

2. Modify the Heading 1 style in Word to ensure it uses Outline Numbering.

   Note: This can be hidden if you don't want the actual headings to appear numbered, by adjusting the Font settings.

   

3. Add the following AfterPublish macro to your template:

Sub AfterPublish() 

Dim DocSection As Section 

    For Each DocSection In ActiveDocument.Sections 

        With DocSection.Headers(1).PageNumbers 

            .NumberStyle = wdPageNumberStyleArabic 

            .IncludeChapterNumber = True 

            .HeadingLevelForChapter = 0 

            .ChapterPageSeparator = wdSeparatorHyphen 

            .RestartNumberingAtSection = True 

            .StartingNumber = 1 

        End With 

    Next DocSection 

    ActiveDocument.Fields.Update 

End Sub 

Note: To restart the numbering for each chapter, (for example, 1-1, 2-1, 3-1 etc) ensure .RestartNumberingAtSection is set to True.
To continue the numbering, ensure it is set as False.