[OklahomaWriter]

Hello all,

I'm putting together a book manuscript on Word (2003) (XP Home), and would
like page numbering to begin on the 17th page, after the title page,
acknowledgements, table of contents, etc. I'd like the page numbers to begin
appearing on the first page of the preface, as is done in many classic books.
Again, in my case, that would be page xvii (17).

I'm pretty new at doing anything other than typing in Word, but here's what
I've tried so far: I've created a section break on page 16, thus a new
section (section 2)for the preface beginning on page 17. I then click INSERT,
goto PAGE NUMBERS, then FORMAT, and entered START AT XVII.

When I do that, the page number xvii DOES appear on page 17. The problem is
that numbers 1 through 16 (in Roman numerals) also appear on the previous 16
pages (in the previous section--section 1).

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Michael