[Stefan Blom]

I'm glad I could help.

Just out of curiosity, I'd like to know which that other post was? In
which newsgroup? What was the subject line?

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"marthamemphis" wrote in message
...
Stefan - I cannot thank you enough! I still want to send Bill Gates
an email
because page numbering combined with footers and sections should NOT
be this
difficult!!!!! The 6 sentences you wrote in another post "save my
job!" You
recommended going back to the first of the very long document I was
working
on, inserting page, making sure continuous was checked, etc. Honest
to
goodness, I have worked on this mess for weeks and had about 75
pages of
instructions from various sources. Your 6 sentences (along with a
couple of
other suggestions) resolved all of my problems. If anybody needs to
know how
to do continuous numbering with long documents and many sections and
many
footers, let me know. I can make your life much easier with
one-page
instructions instead of 75!!!!! Thanks Stefan!!!!!! I love you!!!!!

"Stefan Blom" wrote:

With a "Next page" section break a the end of page 2, you would be
able to create different footers on pages 1, 2, and 3. Just unlink
the
footer in the second section and, for the first section, enable
the
"Different first page" option in File | Page Setup, Layout tab.

For more about headers and footers, see
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/HeaderFooter.htm.

For more about sections, see
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting...thSections.htm.

For more about page numbering, see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Numbering/PageNumbering.htm.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"marthamemphis" wrote in message
news
This does not work - I have tried it a zillion times! When you
do a
section
break - does it need to be "continuous"? If it is not
continuous,
it causes
an additional page break. If I have different footer on both
page
2 and 3,
it gets even more complicated. Do I do my footers first? If I
have
no
footer on page 2, and a different footer on both 2 and 3, then I
need page 3
to actually start numbering as page #1. I have tried
everything.........I am
missing something! I think on page 2, I would put "different
first
page",
right? But, I can't put the same thing on the 2nd page. I have
created a
dummy document and none of this is working.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

You'll need a section break between pages 2 and 3, then just
go to
Format
Page Number and set it to Start at 1. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...rontMatter.htm

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Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
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"marthamemphis"
wrote in
message
...
I have huge documents -over 100 pages with different footers
throughout.
I 'finally' figured out how to change the footer (best way
is to
go from
the
back of the document forward, but cannot get the document to
work when I
need
to start numbering the 3rd page of the document as Page 1.