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Okay, so I have created a seperate pagelayout just for the coverpage. I have applied the pagelayout but when I build the pdf it is still showing the old pagelayout. Is there something else I need to change somewhere?

I'm sorry, I am not particularly familiar with CSS and don't understand what you are saying regarding frames. I am struggling to see the benefit of using this over Word. It makes so many things more difficult to do it is driving me nuts but that's off topic so I will leave it there.

I tried ...

I could. Does that mean it is impossible to show the number of pages on the main part of a document?

Okay, thanks
As you can see the footer is displaying correctly, but the main page is not.

The code is as below:

It works in the footer. It shows "Page 1 of 66". It is on the main part of the page it does not work. The template that is used by my company requires the total number of pages to be displayed as part of the front cover of documents and it is here that it is not working. How do you paste screenshots ...

I have a 'h1','h2','h3' and 'h4'.

The first part, as shown below, works. I have also stated for each the heading style and whether they are a new topic:
1. Overview 6 (h1, New topic)
2. Deployment Information 7 (h1, New topic)
3. Installation 9 (h1, New topic)
3.1. Application Server (FM ...

If I put in a Chapter Break the numbering system works but I don't want a load of empty space on my pages. Is there a way of putting a chapter break in but not making it start on a new page?

Okay, I have found that. I have not clicked in the Targets folder before so this is something new to me. I did what you said and it doesn't seem to have made any difference to my table of contents. Any other ideas?

The code for the pagecount is below.

<p class="coverpage">TOTAL NUMBER OF PAGES</p>
<p class="coverpage"><MadCap:variable name="System.PageCount" style="color: #000000; font-size: 10pt;" />
</p>

It doesn't allow me to post a screenshot but on the actual page it just shows the number "1".

I don't understand what you mean or know where this box is to check.

Looking at it closer, the section that works, all of the titles are on the same topic. The section that does not work, each heading is a different topic. Is this the issue and how can I fix this?

Can anyone help with this please?

If there is nobody who can help does anyone know where I could go to find help?

I am still stuck with this issue. Is there anyone out there who can help me? It seems like it should be a very simple fix. I can post code or whatever if it would help.

My numbering system doesn't seem to be working properly. The first part of my document seems to have worked correctly but then the second half, the numbers don't work. My table of contents is as below:

TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Overview 6
2. Deployment Information 7
3. Installation 9
3.1. Application ...

That's great. Thanks very much

Okay, so I have my autonumbering sorted for my figures using this:

GH:Figure {n+}:

I also want to autonumber my tables. How can I do this? I changed the code to say:

GH:Table {n+}:

but this just continues the value of n on, understandably.

So what do I need to do different?

Cheers

I have changed it and it works. ajturnersurrey you are a legend. Thanks for the help and perseverance at my ineptitude.

Okay

p
{
margin-bottom: 6pt;
color: #292929;
margin-top: 0pt;
font-size: 10pt;
font-family: 'Bliss Pro';
line-height: 15pt;
}

p.caption
{
margin-top: 10pt;
margin-bottom: 12pt;
font-style: italic;
color: #525252;
font-size: 9pt;
text-align: center;
font-family: 'Bliss Pro';
font ...

Well this is getting very confusing.

I changed the code so that it looks like this:

<p>
<img src="../../Resources/Images/Figure 1 - Logging into the Application Server.png" />
</p>
<p class="caption" MadCap:autonum="Figure 1: ">Logging into the Application Server </p>

I typed in the "Logging ...

Well that is frustrating. It is pleasing to know that what I have done is the correct way and should work but leaves me at a loss to work out why it isn't. I can click before the 'Figure 1:' and type and I can type on the next line down but it won't allow me to type after it. Does anyone else have ...

Clearly what I am asking for is either too time consuming, people don't understand what I am asking or perhaps the answer to my question is already out there in an easy to understand format. If someone could help me out here it would be much appreciated.

My apologies. I do have a tocProxy although it is about 4 pages in as I have a load of warnings and certification stuff that needs to come first. I still haven't worked the answer out to my original question. Does anyone else have ideas?

My second page does not include a tocProxy. Not sure what that is. My pagecount is not in the footer it is on the main section of the page. I have the Chapter Number to Increment. I didn't have a break type on my coverpage but I tried changing it to Page Layout Break and it didn't make any ...

I don't think I am familiar enough with Madcap to do anything 'funky' with it. My Pagecount is on the coverpage and the first page number is also showing on the coverpage. Although once I have this sorted I might try to hide the coverpage page number. It shows the number 1 in edit mode and the ...