Page Deletion and Page Number tabs

[Jim O]

HI There,

I am still learning my way around Viso...  I appreaciate all of the great information on this site.

When I have a document my first page might start with page 3 or 4 there are times where this document might get to be 90 to 120 pages.  I like to keep the page tabs the same as the document page.  If I delete a page the entire document renumbers itself starting back with page one.  IS there a way to prevent the repagnation when deleting pages??

Thanks in Advance!

[aledlund]

Sorry, I'm not quite sure what you mean "prevent the repagnation"
al

[Paul Herber]

I think what he means is what happens when you create Page-1, Page-2, Page-3 etc., then when you delete Page-2 what was Page-3 becomes Page-2.
This only seems to happen if the pages have the default names "Page-" in the English language version of Visio. If pages are created using some other naming system, say, "page" in lower case then pages are not renamed when a page is deleted.

[wapperdude]

Adding to Paul's comment, basically, if you  change the tab name, make it lower case as Paul's example, or delete the "-" or change the "-" to a space, or whatever, creates a custom name that Visio won't update.    But, if each page has reference to a background page, and said background uses "fields" to show the page number, then, you could have a case, e.g., where "Page-3" was renamed to "Page 3" but, after the 2nd page was deleted, results in "Page 3" becoming the 2nd page in the document and being reported as page 2.  That is, the tab will still literally show it as "Page 3", but, on (in) the actual page, the field info will show as page 2.  Hope that wasn't confusing  , because it could be!  

Now, in the above example, perhaps "Page-4", the default name wasn't changed.  So, with the deletion of the 2nd page, "Page 3" becomes the 2nd page, "Page-4" becomes the third page, and now you have tab names "Page 3" and "Page-3" because Visio did update the default named Page-4.   

Anyway, just some of the things that might happen.   

[Paul Herber]

Oh, and, if you want to renumber all these 100 odd pages to something like "page xxx" to prevent the autorenumber then I have a utility to do this at:
http://www.sandrila.co.uk/visio-utilities/

[Jim O]

tHANKS gUYS i APPRECIATE TEH HELP AND ADVICE!