XL: How to Change Arabic Page Numbers to Roman Numerals

ID: Q139403

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SUMMARY

Microsoft Word for Windows has a page numbering option that converts the arabic page numbers to Roman numerals. Microsoft Excel does not have the equivalent built-in functionality; however, this feature can be emulated with a Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications macro or procedure.

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The following example prints out all of the pages in the active worksheet and converts all page numbers to Roman numerals in the process.

To use the following macro, you will need to set up a Microsoft Excel file as follows:

1. Create a new, blank Microsoft Excel workbook.

2. Insert a Visual Basic for Applications module in the workbook.

3. In the new module, type the following: 

      Sub PrintRoman()
          ' There is no Visual Basic equivalent for the following
          ' function call to find the total number of pages that
          ' will print on the active worksheet.
          NumOfPages = ExecuteExcel4Macro("GET.DOCUMENT(50)")
          ' Loop through all the pages.
          For x = 1 To NumOfPages

              ' Set the center footer to the Pagenumber in Roman.
              '
              ' NOTE: In Microsoft Excel 97 and Microsoft Excel 98, use:
              '
              '    WorksheetFunction.Roman(x)
              '
              ' instead of:
              '
              '    Application.Roman(x)
              ActiveSheet.PageSetup.CenterFooter = Application.Roman(x)

              ' Print out the current page.
              ActiveSheet.PrintOut from:=x, to:=x

          Next x
          ' Clear the footer when finished printing.
          ActiveSheet.PageSetup.CenterFooter = ""
      End Sub
4. Save the workbook, and run the macro. 

   To run the macro, you can click Macro on the Tools menu, or you can 
   assign it to a toolbar button or menu item.

REFERENCES

For more information about the ROMAN() function, click Help Topics and Search in Microsoft Excel 5.0, or click Index in Microsoft Excel 7.0 Help, and enter the following: 

   ROMAN
"Microsoft Excel Function Reference," version 4.0, pages 196-199

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Last Reviewed: May 17, 1999