Back to the first section of your document.Close the Header & Footer menu using the red x at the far right. Scroll up and down to see how your page numbers look.Select Start at: and type number 1 into the box (or whichever page number you want the main section of your text to start at). Without closing the DESIGN tab, go back to Page Number in Header & Footer and this time choose Format Page Numbers. Not done yet! Word recognizes that the page you are on the x th page of your document and it gives it the relevant number.Choose the style and location where you want your numbers to appear. Click on the drop down arrow for Page Number. Click on it to break the link with the previous section. In the Navigation menu (still in DESIGN) the tab Link to Previous (=section) appears as active.This action opens up the DESIGN tab which, amongst other things, allows you to add page numbers in the header or footer of your document. Still on the same page, double click at the top.The document is now divided into two sections.If you want to see how this looks ‘behind the scenes’ click on the HOME tab at the start of the ribbon and click on the paragraph sign ¶ under the Paragraph menu. Go to PAGE LAYOUT and in the Page Setup menu, click on the drop down arrow for Breaks.Place your cursor right at the start of the second section (or the section with the main body of your text).

This is where you normally go to add page numbers to your document. The process involves opening up the Header & Footer menu. To make this work you need to split your document into two different sections, otherwise Word will apply one sequence of page numbers to the entire document. Inserting Roman numerals into the first section of your document and Arabic numerals into subsequent ones.

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