Controlling Page Number Word 2003 and 2007

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You can control page numbering in a Word Document?

So, you want to put a number on the bottom of your page in a Word document, but you don’t want a number on the first page and you want the second page to start with the number 1.

In Word 2003:

• Click on View from the Menu Bar
• Click on Header Footer (The Header Footer toolbar will appear)
  

• Go down to the footer by clicking on the Switch Between Header and Footer icon on the toolbar.

• Click on Page Setup

• Click on the Layout Tab
• Put a checkmark in different first page (this will allow you to have page numbers on all the pages except the first page.)

• Click OK
• Put the cursor where you want the page number on the second page footer, click on the the Insert Page Number icon

• Now, select (or highlight) the number in the footer on the second page

• Click on the Format Page Number icon

• Tell it to start at 0 (This will tell the document that the first page is 0 so the second page will start at 1)

Click on Ok and check your page numbering now.

In Word 2007

• Click on Insert from the Ribbon (The Header Footer Toolbar will show up on the ribbon)

• Click on Footer

• Select the option closest to what you want
• Click on Different First Page

• Now, select (or highlight) the number in the footer on the second page

• Click on the down arrow on the Page Number icon
• Select Format Page Number from the drop down menu
  

Tell it to start at 0 (This will tell the document that the first page is 0 so the second page will start at 1)

Click OK and check your page numbering now.

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