[Stefan Blom]

You are welcome, and thank you for the feedback.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"OklahomaWriter" wrote in message
news
Suzanne, Stefan, and Daiya:

I want to thank you all for your patience and generosity of spirit
in
answering my questions, and those of others. Perhaps it's difficult
for you
to imagine how lost and frustrated some of us with non-technical
minds can
feel when stymied by such issues.

On a pragmatic note, Stefan: Your suggestion about checking that I'd
unlinked the footer from previous section--that worked. And Suzanne:
I
followed your advice and inserted the page numbering from the
header/footer
toolbar.

Thanks again,
Michael

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

To add to what Stefan has said, it's best in any document beyond
the
simplest single-section paper to use the Insert Page Number button
on the
Header and Footer toolbar rather than the Insert | Page Numbers
feature. The
latter inserts the page number in a frame, which can cause
problems down the
line (see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...yIndented.htm),
and although it's possible to work with these page numbers the
same way you
do simple ones, it's a bit more complicated. And, although Word
formats the
frame to avoid any header/footer text and vice versa, this can
cause
problems in itself, so you should definitely avoid framed page
numbers in a
header or footer that contains other text.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
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"Stefan Blom" wrote in message
...
A footer must be unlinked from its "neighbor" in the preceding
section, just like headers. (Note also that if you enabled
"Different
odd and even" and "Different first page" in File | Page Setup,
you
have three different headers and footers, each of which must be
separately unlinked. For more on headers and footers, see
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/HeaderFooter.htm.)

After unlinking, you can delete the page number(s) that you
don't
want. Then click the Format Page Number button on the Header and
Footer toolbar to display the Page Number Format box, where you
can
choose a numbering format and set a desired starting value for
page
numbering in the current section.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"OklahomaWriter" wrote in message
...
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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