[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/StyleRef.htm for help with Stylerefs.
You'd probably do well also to read
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Numbering/PageNumbering.htm and perhaps
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/HeaderFooter.htm and
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...rontMatter.htm

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"Nat" wrote in message
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Thanks Doug. It did help. I still had two page 2s, but I fixed that by
deleting a section at the very beginning.

I would like to learn how to use stylerefs. The tutorials on MS are for
2003, but I assume they'll work for 2007, also.

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Nat


"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:

If the second page is to have the number 2 on it, use the following field
construction in the footer of the first section

{ IF { PAGE } 1 { PAGE } }

and link the footers in all of the sections to the footer in the previous
section

If you want that page to start at 1, then use

{ IF { PAGE } 1 { = { PAGE } - 1 } }

You must use Ctrl+F9 to insert each pair of field delimiters { } and you
use
Alt+F9 to toggle off their display.

Note that you might have been able to achieve what you area after by the
use
of a STYLEREF field instead of all of the sections.

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Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"Nat" wrote in message
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I am working on a 60 page letter (document) in Word 2007. I have 18
sections, b/c I have a header for every page after page one showing
"Topic
A
(or whatever), continued". I want page numbering at the bottom center
to
start on page 2 of the document, and go straight through to the end,
across
all sections.

I have tried every which way-- starting with the footer on the second
page,
which is also the second section, to starting with the first section,
tried
different first page. I get a 1 on the first page, a 2 on the second
page,
and a 2 on the third page. The sizes of my sections vary, some are a
page
or two, others are more than ten pages. I've tried linking to the
previous,
not linking, formating the page numbers using continue from previous.
Whatever I do, it just doesn't go solidly throughout. Can someone from
this
wonderful discussion group give me a step by step from the beginning?

Thanks
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Nat