How do I suspend page numbering in a document, resuming later?

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While writing a document, some sections - per instruction - are to be treated
as "1 page" though the section must actually run to several pages. This
leaves two options for the document (which runs per instruction "30 pages"
but has about 115 actual pages): numer pages as "1, 2, 3, 3a, 3b, 3c, 4 . .
.." or as "1, 2, 3, (several unnumbered pages), 4 . . ."

And really, we would like to know how to do both if possible but will be
satisfied to know one way or the other. This doesn't appear to be covered in
the Help documentation.

By the way, for those of you with experience, this is for a federal HUD
grant: we know this is a common problem that communities throughout the
country experience!
 
There's no elegant solution. The second option is easier: insert section
breaks at start and end of the unnumbered pages. Within the unnumbered
section, edit the header/footer to remove the page numbering. In the
subsequent section, use a calculated field to show the page number less the
offset: { = {PAGE} - n } where n is the count of unnumbered pages. If the
unnumbered sections are relatively stable, it's probably simplest to do this
by hand. If not, you can automate it by inserting a bookmark at a known
location (such as the last page of the previous numbered section) then
calculate the page number using a pageref to that bookmark.
 
When I worked at Group Health Cooperative (document processing) I worked with extensive manuals (edits and new entries), among other things, and it took me the longest time to deal with this type of thing.

Breaks (section, continuous, etc.) had to be employed. However, with header/footer open, I could break the link to previous page and have no numbering from this point forward. Then when I wanted to resume the pages, I could start new from this page and tell WORD which number with which to start. This is just one method. I am sure there are others (some more complicated) -

CB
 
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