Daiya,
Thanks so much for your kind and helpful reply. It worked! ....But...
I have a follow-up question. I changed the location of page numbering from
header to footer (and perhaps did some other unpardonable sin) and now both
section 1 and section 2 begin with page 17. (And I want section 1 to remain
without page numbering.) And when I go into section 1 and double click on a
page number (in the footer) and delete it, that also deletes the page
numbering in section 2.
Please enlighten me.
Thank you,
Michael
"Daiya Mitchell" wrote:
In section 2, using the header/footer toolbar, de-activate the "link to
previous/same as previous" icon. This icon links the sections and makes the
same thing show up in them all.
General information on front matter, which may also be useful--it explains
the step above and many others:
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...rontMatter.htm
Hope that helps,
On 12/14/06 10:51 PM, "OklahomaWriter" wrote:
Hello all,
I'm putting together a book manuscript on Word (2003) (XP Home), and would
like page numbering to begin on the 17th page, after the title page,
acknowledgements, table of contents, etc. I'd like the page numbers to begin
appearing on the first page of the preface, as is done in many classic books.
Again, in my case, that would be page xvii (17).
I'm pretty new at doing anything other than typing in Word, but here's what
I've tried so far: I've created a section break on page 16, thus a new
section (section 2)for the preface beginning on page 17. I then click INSERT,
goto PAGE NUMBERS, then FORMAT, and entered START AT XVII.
When I do that, the page number xvii DOES appear on page 17. The problem is
that numbers 1 through 16 (in Roman numerals) also appear on the previous 16
pages (in the previous section--section 1).
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Michael
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