OMG THANK YOU! This was driving me nuts. Still getting used to the 2007 architechture of no menus. I had a cover page so it was naming my first page 2 instead of 1.

I have one report with 3 different sections and so I need 3 different numbering formats. I have used word 2007 help but still unable to do it. Can you please give me an example on how to do this. I have tried both previous section and next section to find the right page insertion start but still unable to do it. I have also tried page breaks. And finally google and saw your page. I hope you can help with this “simple” problem. Thanks.

hey Mario

Dint know if you came right, but here are the correct first few steps:

# Starting at the beginning of the document, place the cursor on the first page where you want to display the page number in a different format.
# On the Page Layout tab, in the Page Setup group, click Breaks.
# Under Section Breaks, click Next Page.
# On the Insert tab, in the Header & Footer group, click Header or Footer, and then click Edit Header or Edit Footer to make changes in the header or footer area.

The header or footer that contains the page number is labeled Section 2.

The rest is pretty SE…
Later
Andrew

It doesn’t work in some instances.

I have a document that was originally in Word 2003 with headers and footers on each page. I’ve saved in the new format. I added a section break for next page at the top of the doc.

I then unlinked the header from the section 2 header and successfully deleted it. But can I do the same with the footer? NO! No matter what I do if I delete the footer in section 1 it ends up removing it from the odd page numbered pages.

Frankly, I think Word 2007 is half-baked. I’m sorry I upgraded. I’ve been an IT professional for over 20 years now - I’m no newbie and don’t mind learning new things - but this is silly.

Thanks so much for this and your other tips Diana. First link clicked in google and always solves the problem immediately. Cheers!

This is a great start, but my problem goes a bit further. The first section of my document does not need any numbering, but if I remove footer Page numbers from the section, it also removes them from the rest of the document. At the end of the document, I’d like to have a couple of blank pages (with no numbering).

What I need is to be able to number just the middle section of the document.

Any suggestions on how to supress page numbering on certain sections of a document?

I’m pulling my hair out over this one - and what’s left is now grey. HELP PLEASE!!

Evelyn

I agree - it is a complicated procedure. I’m trying to put roman numerals on first 3 pages then restart numbering again on page 4. Have put in section breaks, doesn’t work. Such a simple task has turned out extremely frustrating, I give up.

I’m having a slightly different problem. I need to change orientation in several places, I can’t get MS Word 2007 to continue the page numbers in each section. It automatically restarts the numbering. What a waste of time - this should be simple. I hate to say it but some days I still miss Wordperfect.

Ok. If you want to number part of your document i, ii, iii and then continue with 1, 2, 3, you MUST use section breaks (next page section breaks, in fact).

At the end of the i, ii, iii section, you must insert a “next page section break.” In the header/footer options/page numbers, say “start numbering at 1″ and rename the style to numerals rather than Roman numerals. That should do it.

As for continuing the page numbering from section to section (MS has a tendency to restart each section with the page number 1), you can go to header/footer tools. click “next footer (or header… wherever your page number is). When you get to an incorrect page number (most likely 1), then you will go to the page number menu and say “continue numbering.”

NOW this is important: click “go to next section” and cntrl Y. This will repeat that action of continuing the page numbering. Keep doing these two actions (next section—control y) until you reach the document’s end.

NOW A QUESTION FROM ME: HOW CAN I MAKE MS 2007 RESTART EVERY NUMBERED LIST WITH 1 RATHER THAN CONTINUING?

I use Word 2007. In the intro of my report I succeeded to get the numering in roman i,ii,iii, ect. [section break - page number restart] and the rest of the with latin numbers - that’s all fine. Thank you.
Then I checked my table of contents and it uses all latin numbers. How do I get the contents listed with the proper roman and latin numbers. Field code looks like: { PAGEREF _Toc198831216 \h }.

What I used to do in Office 2003 in seconds, takes me minutes in 2007. This program drives me up the wall.

Unforunately, this doesn’t work for the Y in Page X of Y, which adds in the new section pages, even though told not to by unclicking Link to Previous and by following your suggestion above. MS has made this procedure seemingly more difficult in Word 07, and provides terrible/useless help on this software, this topic.

I agree with Evelyn Hausberger in that I want to SUPPRESS PAGE NUMBERING for certain pages. This simple feat is no longer possible in Word 2007 - and Microsoft does not recognize that the users are unhappy. Their software engineers go off on their own and revamp a XperfectlyX mostly good application.

If anyone out there in geekland can tell us how to suppress page numbering (without breaking the document into separate documents), please help us!!!

you just saved my life , and my workpaper , tks

I agree! I am about to lose a book contract because I cannot properly format my manuscript header/footer/number to begin on the 23rd page of the document! HELP! LOL