Your suggestion allowed me to get the page numbers to behave. Thanks for the
help

Jim Waits

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Most likely the page numbering is restarting in the inaccessible sections in
the middle of the page. You can either insert a page break to make the
header/footer of such a section accessible or use Insert | Page Numbers:
Format (starting from the center section). If you use the latter, be sure to
use Close rather than OK to exit the dialog.

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"Jim Waits" Jim wrote in message
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I am working on a document that has multiple sections per page due to text
formatting (one column at top and two columns in lower half). However, I
have been unable to have consecutive page numbers thrughout the entire
document. Attempts to restart and/or maintain consecutive numbers have
been
unsuccessful. How do I do this?