In Word, many of the people I support want to have the first page excluded
from the total count of pages, yet have a page 1 of 5 type pagination, with 1
being the second page of the document.

You can do that by adding a section break between the non-numbered pages and
the numbered pages. There should be no more than one section in the numbered
pages. You can then insert a field that is the total number of pages in the
section (insert, field, numbering, sectionpages).

Here is a problem that happens with that in Word 2003: When printing, you
can get page 1 of 1, 2 of 2, 3 of 3. The problem happens because Word 2003
seems to be able to print before the document has fully evaluated how many
pages there are, so it prints the value it has calculated at that point.

The solution, at this point, is to WAIT until the pagination has been
established (going into print preview helps that.)

Has anyone else run into this?