word numbering in page break sections

[Peter McCaul]

I still can't figure this out so any help is appreciated.

I have a document that has 106 pages. I've seperated the document with page
breaks because there are different sections to it. There are about 8 page
breaks in all. What I would like to do is have the page number start at 1
for each section and number each page until it gets to the new section.
Then have it start at 1 for the new section and so on. I've used the help
feature in word 2000 and the instructions seem pretty straight forward. I
just can't get it to work. It numbers the whole document from 1 all the way
to 106.

Thank you.

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Did you use Page Breaks or Section Breaks (Next Page)?

You need to use Section Breaks (you can delete the existing page breaks).

Then View | Headers/Footers, click the Format Page Number icon on the
header/footer toolbar, and select "restart each section".

Turn on Show/Hide to see what type of break you have, or go into View|Normal
where they automatically show up.

 

[Peter McCaul]

It is section breaks I'm using. Still doesn't work. I don't see a "restart
each section" section in the Format Page Number icon display.

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

No, you're right. That isn't what it says. Sorry about that.

In my Format Page Number dialog, there are mutually exclusive radio buttons.
One is "continue from previous section", the other is "start at ___" .
Select the "start at ___" option and make sure it is enabled for each
section.

It's not exactly clear, but because one and only one of those buttons must
be checked, when you interpret "start at ___" in *opposition* to "continue
from previous section" it because apparent that an accurate phrasing would
have been "don't continue from previous section, but start this section at
___"

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

And it will save a lot of labor if you set the entire document to "Start at
1" before inserting any section breaks.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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