If you have lost the ability to insert page numbers in Word 7, your Building Blocks.dotx file is missing. If you know this already and have looked to Microsoft to help you, I’m sorry you wasted your time. However, if you have Word 7 on another computer, follow these directions to transfer Building Blocks.dotx from one computer to the other (If you don’t have a second computer, continue reading):
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Building Blocks.dotx fix that works: (also see Aspasia’s comment below for a second solution that worked for her)
1: Get Building Blocks.dotx from a computer that has it. It’s located in:
Computer>C>Program Files(x86)>Microsoft Office>Office12>Document Parts>1033
If you do not have a second computer with Word, continue reading for an alternate solution.
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2: Make a copy of the file to the desktop. Send it via email to yourself. Download it to the same directory on the computer where it’s currently missing.
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If you do not have a second computer, you can download the Building Blocks.dotx file at http://www.box.com/s/316bd7ec11f87c77e85f . It’s also in the sidebar of this blog (in the Box widget). Having looked for hours for a Microsoft fix online, I feel your pain. Pain no more!
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If this fix does not work, here is a comment that came in (you can read it below) about additional steps:
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“Hi! Your post helped a lot. It was one of the clearest solutions i found online. However, that didn’t solve my problem. I had to go in Word options>Add-ins>Manage: Templates , Go>add> and then add the file (Building Blocks.dotx) and then Ok. When i opened word again the page numbering templates were there 
i just thought to add this comment in case someone had the same problem as me.”
Happy Page Numbering!
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Hi! Your post helped a lot. It was one of the clearest solutions i found online. However, that didn’t solve my problem. I had to go in Word options>Add-ins>Manage: Templates , Go>add> and then add the file (Building Blocks.dotx) and then Ok. When i opened word again the page numbering templates were there
i just thought to add this comment in case someone had the same problem as me.
Awesome! Thank you so much for your feedback! I will add it to the original post!
Many thanks to you both. Between both instructions the problem has now fixed and my hours of typing are now ready to hand in…..can’t thank you enough. Marian.
The best help ever. After 2 hours of trying to figure out; found your site and fixed in 10 minutes!!!! Aspasia instructions were so helpful!
Yay! The same thing had happened to me – hours and hours online looking for a solution through Microsoft – so I am glad you are finally on your way to page numbering abd breaking all of your documents. Thank you Aspasia!
THANK YOU SO MUCH.
Happy page numbering!
Thank you…. Thank you….Thank you….
You’re welcome 3 times!
“Hi! Your post helped a lot. It was one of the clearest solutions i found online. However, that didn’t solve my problem. I had to go in Word options>Add-ins>Manage: Templates , Go>add> and then add the file (Building Blocks.dotx) and then Ok. When i opened word again the page numbering templates were there
i just thought to add this comment in case someone
had the same problem as me.”
GREAT!!! Thanks
Thank you for the extra tips! I know it will help more people as Building Blocks just seems to poof disappear and Windows is no help!
Thank you this was wonderful. It was very frustrating when i couldn’t figure out how to get page numbers. after seeing this site it took merely a minute to get them on my document!
It does not work. I have to do it each time.
It’s maddening that Microsoft has no tutorial for this. I searched and searched and somehow made things happen. I’m glad the solution on her worked for you. To page numbers hurrah!
But if you go in Word options>Add-ins>Manage: Templates , Go>add> and then add the file (Building Blocks.dotx) and then Ok, then you can add page numbers.
Thanks for adding this. Hopefully anyone who can’t get page numbers in their documents will look through to your comment. Where did Building Blocks go? No one knows…. (insert spooky music)
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. You saved me in so many things: had to go computer library for this reason unfortunately have to go work on the other hand. Paper due was after couple ours from now and page numbers were must. Just thank you. One question: I had to copy and past from my MS word to you, that was how it work. Couldn’t still fix mine …How?
Is it fixed now? I can’t remember all the turns I took in order to finally fix my Word, but the comments above are from people who had the same problem and their fixes.
Let me know!
thank you so much!!! it really solved my problem of adding page numbers after looking for a solution for so long!
I’m glad to help! Microsoft makes a lot of great things but are severely lackng in their online resources for fixing problems. Hooray for page numbers!
Thank You!!!!!
Спасибо!!!!!! (RU)
Paldies!!!!! (LV)
You’re welcome!
!De Nada! (SP) This is the only other language I know
Thanx a lot!!
Everything is so easy if you know how to do it