Why don’t you try the other scenarios I mentioned in the beginning? On true it shows the value in the first inverted comma and on false the value from the second. I used MOD to determine if a page was odd or even. Conclusionĭon’t you think this is interesting.

Create another field code for PAGE inside the desired inverted commas.

Follow with space, inverted commas, space, inverted commas.

Outside braces you created in 3, evaluate the expression to 0.

Inside round brackets, open one more set of curly braces.

Press Ctrl + F9 to open another set of curly braces.

Press Ctrl + F9 to create the outer set of curly braces.

That will show a pair of curly braces for numbers on even pages. Step 3: Scroll to one of either an even or odd page based on which page you want to show the numbers (I will take odd in this example). Step 2: Under Header & Footer Tools, Design, check Different Odd & Even Pages. To do that, navigate to Insert -> Header/Footer.

Step 1: Insert a blank header or footer based on where you want the page numbers to appear. Typing braces will be treated as normal text and not field codes.

Note: Always create the braces by pressing Ctrl + F9 (that’s the simplest and quickest way). And you must also learn how to insert field codes by reading this. If you have no knowledge on this topic, I strongly recommend you read this article from Microsoft. They are like placeholders for values that change according to an algorithm with specific references.

A Bit on Field Codesįield codes can be used to insert dynamic content in a Word document. We will see how to show page numbers on only even or odd pages. Today we will take on one among those many situations and discover the magic behind getting the task done.

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