Missing Section Numbers

[Guest]

Two part question.

1) Looks like if you insert a section and then delete it, Word will not
renumber the sections. As an example I may have Section 1 through 3 then 5
through 10, etc. Is this correct.

2)Occasionally I will add a continuous section break to insert a single
column sheet into a double column section and then a page break so that the
text following the table ends up on the next page. Problem is that the next
page, apears as page two of a new section and I cannot find the page 1. If I
format the number from previous section, it skips a number.

 

[Jezebel]

Two part question.

1) Looks like if you insert a section and then delete it, Word will not
renumber the sections. As an example I may have Section 1 through 3 then 5
through 10, etc. Is this correct.

No, this is not correct. Sections are always numbered consecutively. The
section number displayed in headers and footers is the section at the start
of page. So if the last page of your section three contains two section
breaks, the following page will be section 5. Section 4 still exists, but
only as the range between the two breaks.

2)Occasionally I will add a continuous section break to insert a single
column sheet into a double column section and then a page break so that
the
text following the table ends up on the next page. Problem is that the
next
page, apears as page two of a new section and I cannot find the page 1. If
I
format the number from previous section, it skips a number.

Because page one of the following section doesn't exist as such: it is the
latter part of the preceding page, which, for pagination purposes is
considered to be the last page of the preceding section.

Display your document in normal mode, with non-printing characters
displayed, to see all the breaks it contains.