Page Numbering in WORD

When writing our thesis or dissertation in WORD, we usually encounter the page numbering problem which is HOW TO:

1. Hide the page number for the first two pages.
2. Show page numbers on say page x to page y in roman alphabet.
3. And the rest of the page numbers in Arabic (1, 2, ...) format starting from one.

There are two ways to do this. The first way is to make three different documents having different page numbering formats and print them separately. I have followed this for a long time and it is time for a change.

The second method is actually time consuming to learn but I will show you a copy paste method to get your job done. After all that's what WORD does for us.

Follow these 5 small steps to get the work done.

1. Download THIS one page word file.
2. Open the file and double click on the footer section in the file. Press ALT F9 if you don't see anything.
3. You should see two lines which look as shown below. Copy the lines and paste it where ever your want your page number to appear (usually in the footer).
   
   { IF { = ({ IF { PAGE } > 2 1 0 }+ { IF { PAGE } <= 5 1 0 } ) } = 2 "{ PAGE \*roman }" "" }
   {IF { = ( { IF { PAGE } > 5 1 0 } + { IF { PAGE } <= { NUMPAGES } 1 0 } ) } = 2 "{ = { PAGE } - 5 \*arabic }" "" }
   
   Note: Please do not copy the above code. The curly brackets should have been inserted using CTRL F9 to tell WORD that it is a field code. So copy it from the downloaded file only.


4. The code you have copied shows roman numbers after page 2 till page 5. So change the numbers to match your requirements (in exactly 6 places).
5. Then press ALT F9 and see the magic.

Note: To change the font and size of the two lines you copied as you want the page numbers to appear. Refer to the following links to learn about fields in WORD.

References

http://word.mvps.org/faQs/Numbering/PageNumbering.htm

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/CH100992711033.aspx

http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/211363

Frequent Wireless Router Disconnections

Problem: Frequent wireless disconnections when laptops with different operating systems (windows 7, MAC, etc.) are connected to the router.

Solution: Upgrade the firmware of the router to the latest version.

Details: We use a WRT54G router and two laptops running Vista connect to this wireless router. We discovered that whenever a friend visits us and tries to connect his/her laptop which runs Windows 7/MAC OS, all the laptops connected to the router get disconnected for a short while and then reconnect before getting disconnected. This cycle continues until only two laptops use the router. We tried a lot of things and finally, upgrading the firmware of the router to the latest version worked. This might be because the older firmware version was released before Windows 7 was introduced.

Apparently, frequent wireless disconnections could also be due to various other factors such as hardware incompatibilities. But if you are facing this problem, there is no harm in trying to upgrade the firmware of your router. It is easy.

Is it wise to eat Rice?

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind. ~G.K. Chesterton

Eat right, exercise regularly, die anyway. ~Author Unknown

Quick Facts:

On an average, a man burns 2500 calories per day.
On an average, a women burns 2000 calories per day.
1 pound of weight on the body is made up of 3500 calories.
1 Kg of weight on the body is made up of 1500 calories.
1 Kg of wheat/rice has 3500 calories.

To reduce weight, the calorie intake per day should be less than the calories burnt. And to reduce 1 Kg of weight in 5 days, we have to reduce our intake to less than 2500 calories per day (for men). Its like you are given 2500 dollars per day and you have to spend as little as you can. The more you save, the healthy you are. The best way to reduce the calorie intake is by replacing rice with pulkas because you save in bulk without forgoing essential nutrients.

A simple calculation:

1 Kg of wheat/rice = 3500 calories.
1 Kg of rice = 7 glasses or rice.
Each glass of rice is 500 calories.
So, 2 glasses of rice per day is equivalent to consuming 1000 calories per day.

70 pulkas/chapathis can be made from 1 Kg of wheat.
Each pulka is 3500/70 = 50 Calories.
So, eating 8 pulka a day adds up to 400 Calories.

You save 600 calories per day by eating 8 pulka instead of rice and even more, if you eat lesser number of pulka.

Shifting the diet from rice to pulkas might not be easy. Complementing your lunch/dinner with some juice fills you and makes the transition easier.

Assuming that our daily intake is 2600 calories per day initially, the transition from rice to pulkas reduces the calorie intake to 2000 calories which is 500 calories lesser than the calories burnt per day. So we will reduce our weight by 1 kg in 3 days and 10 kg if we continue it for a month. Isn't it easy ?

Note: Chapathi has more calories in it due to the oil. 8 Chapathi has 1000 calories. If we reduce the number of chapathi intake, the quantity might not be sufficient.

This post was inspired from a talk given by Manthena Satyanarayana Raju.

Tryst with blogging

Everything around us in our day to day life is unique and has an interesting history. A lifetime would not be sufficient to decipher all the mysteries that nature holds. In this busy world, nobody has the time to observe individuals or things that are a daily part of our life, let alone concentrate on their minute details. But there are a few moments in our life that something suddenly catches our eye and amazes us as to how we have not observed this time.

This blog is dedicated to such moments wherein we stumble upon or tumble to interesting observations and to our thoughts on them. The question is whether we came across Something or Nothing.