On the Header and Footer toolbar, click Format Page Number. If it says
"Start at 2," change it to "Continue from previous section" (the default
setting). If this corrects the problem in the current document, then open
Normal.dot directly and change the setting there. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...ocNotBlank.htm for instructions on
locating Normal.dot.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Aze" Aze @discussions.microsoft.com wrote in message
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Whenever I open a new blank document (normal.dot template opens), the
document opens to Page 2, but it still says Sec 1 and 1/1. This causes
problems when I want to add page numbers to the footer in the form of Page
x
of y, since it comes up as Page 2 of 1. If anyone knows how to change the
template so that it opens on Page 1, that would be great. I am using
Microsoft Word 2002.