[David]

Can I send you my word file to see if you can figure it out?

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Ah, you are really confused now. A SECTION field is not the same as a
section break, which is what you have inserted. When you insert a section
break, the portion of the document following it becomes Section 2. If you
inserted a SECTION field in your page number (that is, the page number was
made up of a SECTION field and a PAGE field), then the leading number would
be 2 because it is the number of the section.

It appears, however, that you have done this correctly, using the "Include
chapter number" option, pointing to your numbered headings. Now you need to
find out why your headings are being numbered incorrectly. If your "first"
numbered heading is being numbered 2 until you diddle with it, then that's
because there is another paragraph (or perhaps even the section break
itself) in that style preceding it, and that is numbered 1. This is what you
need to track down. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/RevealCodes.htm
for some troubleshooting tips that will help with this. Make sure there is a
paragraph mark before your section break, and that that paragraph mark is
NOT formatted as Heading 1 (or whatever heading style you're using in the
page numbers).

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"david" wrote in message
...
I am using the section field. Should I not use the section field for the
first section? I think I need to because the first two pages are the
table
of contents and table of figures, etc. When I inserted the page numbers I
did use the include chapter number option. When I view the details of the
page, I don't see anything unusual and the first heading 1 label is in the
right place. The heading number is section 2 but I clicked on it to
'restart
numbering' and it shows section 1. I tried to manually change the heading
number to 1 but it doesn't stick.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

If you are using the SECTION field, then 2 is correct, since the section
after the first section break IS Section 2.

If you've used "Include chapter number" and applied autonumbering to the
heading style that's being picked up by the page number, then this is a
different issue. Sometimes an empty paragraph before the heading
(possibly
even before the section break) will pick up the numbering format and be
counted as the first numbered heading. If your heading is numbered, does
the
actual h heading numbering start with 1 or 2?

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"david" wrote in message
...
I have a problem with my sections. I have a report with about 6
sections
and
a table of contents in the beginning. I put my first section break
after
the
table of contents, and I want the first section and each section after
that
to have page numbers with both the section and page number, but the
first
section page numbers always say page 2-1 instead of page 1-1. The
second
section and subsequent sections read correctly. I can't figure out
why
the
page numbers and captions don't read correctly because I changed the
format
in the bullets menu to start at Section 1. Anyways, a little help
would
be
great.