On 01/05/2016 22:00, polygonum wrote:
On 01/05/2016 21:39, Steve Walker wrote:
We discovered that WP docs imported into Word worked perfectly, but we
couldn't create new sheets in this long established format, as Microsoft
never considered that you'd want a page number anywhere but in the
header or footer and didn't give an option to place one elsewhere!

Odd - certainly I can put a page number anywhere using Word 2016. If you
had asked, I'd have been pretty sure I could place a page number field
anywhere, right back to an early Word for the Mac.

Word 2016 also seems to allow opening of WP 5.1 files directly - at
least, it offers the choice in the file open dialogue! But I haven't got
any WP5.1 documents to try.

You certainly couldn't then. We had a number of long discussions with
support at Microsoft, as these were standardised documents used
internationally that we did not want to change the format of. In the end
we gave up and continued to create them in WP and import them into Word
to get around the problem.