If you're restarting page numbering at some point, then this setting is
being propagating through all the new sections you create.

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"Dudley Rose" Dudley wrote in message
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I have a multisection document that a program Living Cookbook generates
through a Word template. It comprises a title page section, a table of
contents section, a section of recipes, and an index section. Page
numbers
begin at the recipe section. If I highligh ingredients of one of the
recipes, for example, and farmat them into 2 columns, the following page
number changes to 2. I can go into the footers and eventually set each
page
number (although I usually have to set it at 1 minus the page I want) and
get
it fixed. But there must be a way to avoid this problem and the
associated
page by page fix.

I have looked through several of the help pages on page numbers and
sections, but nothing seems to apply to this problem, at least as I can
figure out. I'm glad to provide an example file; although that doesn't
seem
possiblewithin the newsgroup.

Thank you,
Dudley Rose