Word: Page numbers starting from a specific page
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ธ.ค. 2008
- Starting page numbering on a specific page with the number 1 can be tricky. For example, a document with one title page, a second page for the Abstract, and a third page for the Table of Contents (ToC). The introduction starts on the fourth page, where you want numbers, starting at 1.
The trick is to insert a section break. Each section can have its unique design, including its own page numbering system. By default, sections are linked to each other. This is something that we have to change. I will show you how to do that.
The first step is to put the blinking cursor at the beginning of the fourth page. Then, click the Page Layout TAB, select the Insert section, and make sure it is the next page option. By doing this, you have created two separate sections to work with.
Then, place the blinking cursor somewhere in section two to insert a page number in the second section. Then click the Insert Tab and select Insert page number. (In this example, I will put those numbers in the bottom, center.)
Now, it is time to break the link. Because the two sections we created are linked to each other, the page numbering is not correct. Click once on the link button to break that link.
While you are still in the second section of your document, re-format the page numbering for this section. You do that by clicking the Insert TAB and selecting Format page numbers. Make sure it says Start with number 1. Then click OK.
Lastly, it is time to remove the page numbers from the first section. Go to that section, select a page number, and delete it.
Double-click anywhere in the text to leave the footer.
This results in two sections with two separate numbering systems. There is no number on the first pages, and there is a new page numbering system in the second section.
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Text, video, and audio © Kent Löfgren, Sweden
Thank god I found this video, who knew page numbering could be so rage inducing!
So annoying i'm just banging the table!
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Spent hours trying to figure out the directions on MS Word's support page. Viewed this video once and was able to get it done the first time. Thank Heavens for Mr. Lofgren! (If he's not already, he should be a professor . . . he's a great teacher!)
I always come back to this video when I need to start page numbering on a different page! Great explanation and very easy to follow and understand!
You are the king of word numbering editing. I have watched over 7 videos and they are all incomplete.
Edwin Teh I am thinking about remaking this video (i.e. make a completely new and updated film). If you, of any of my viewers, have suggestions, feel free to mail me. In fact, if you have other suggestions for tutorial films for students about Word, Excel, and so on, please write: kent.lofg (at) gmail.com
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You have been the only person giving Word Education that I was able to follow and understand. Thank you.
Glad my videos help. All the best Carol.
+Kent Löfgren The same herein. Congrats for that!
+Patricia Dias Thanks Patricia!
Kent! Elegantly simply! I had scoured the Internet and of course Microsoft, to no avail. Thank you so much!!!
WHY DOES WORD MAKE THIS SO HARD?!?!?!?!?! Geez, it''s such a common thing I'd think they'd make it so you could do it in one click.
BParker Then Kent would not have created this great post! :)
Thanks a bunch. Wanted to know how to do this for a while, and this was perfect
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Wait how are you here?
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Thank u so much Kent. Its 3.45 in the midnight and I have been struggling for finding out the right trick. No one could help me out, even the other videos are incomplete. Now its done!! I'm going to submit my thesis very shortly and this video is just the right friend beside me now. Thank u once again. I would like to mail you in case I have some other difficulties.
I've found myself coming back to this video several times during the last two years, so simple and helpful. Tack Kent!
The only video on this entire red site that explains it both effetively & concisely! Kudos.
OMG Thank you so much!!!! This was so easy, I've watched others and they were doing it wrong, this worked for me first try!
I am glad the video helped.
+Kent Löfgren Thank you very much! It was really helpful, i was trying for days to set the numbers from the fourth page of my Thesis and i just did it! :) Greetings from Greece!
what about the blank page found between the two sections
Thank you. You are the only one explaining this precisely well.
Glad you think so!
Aah, this video. I always forget how to do this and every time this video comes to the rescue. You are saint, Kent!
Thank you so much. It worked perfectly. I was about to have a headache because it wasn't working earlier.
100% brilliant it worked-had been fiddling around for ages . many thanks
That was awesome! You don't know how much I really appreciate your CLEAR and SHARP directives.
I've been working on page numbering for HOURS, watching other videos, following instructions, and just about ready to throw not only my computer against the wall but maybe one of my kids... (not really). Needless to say, I was frustrated! In just a matter of seconds, you solved my problem. Thank you for this simple but very clear video.
Thanks, man. One would think it's a simple thing to do but I almost started pulling my hair out :) My thesis is finished though!
My sincere grats :-)
Thank you very much ! I've finally finished my dissertation :D
After spending 3.5 hours in an attempt to insert and remove page numbers from different pages, i found this video and completed my research proposal in about 3 minutes. Saved me..thank you :)
Thank you so much for your short tutorial. Even though I have a newer version of Word, I was able to number the pages of my dissertation the way I wanted (and not the way Word wanted to!). Thank you very much for your clear instructions and for sharing!
awesome !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thank you soo much.. this just saved my day.. i been struggling with this for my assignment for 2days now.. how come it just went so easily this time ..thank you so much..
You saved me! Thank you! ;o)
Have used this for all my print books but still need to refer to it. Have also passed on the link to fellow writers who have expressed gratitude. Thank you so much for such a clear explanation.
Thank you for your comment. It all started in 2008, when a student of mine asked, "how do I start numbering from page 3 with the digit 1?" And I decided to just record and post something quickly. I had no idea that this video would live this long ;-)
Every few years I come to revisit this. I can never remember this trick. Thank you!
You're always welcome!
Great! Thank you!!
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This has been a long battle... and finally... I can declare myself as a winner. From Word. With a help of this wizard. Someone give this guy an award.
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Best movie with Word explanation ever!!! Never would have thought that pagenumbering and playing with it would be THIS easy!
link to previous button is not clickable .. can you please tell me what to do???
+Shreekrishna Tiwari same thing for me dude
+ivo santini qtpie do the exact steps as he does
+bob the raccoon lol I love qtpie, I won`t cuz it`s over :)
LATE REPLY BUT IT WILL BE HELPFUL FOR OTHERS IN FUTURE
The reason it is not-clickable because you are clicking the "page break" not the section break. Go to the page layout like he said and then click the 'next page'.
link to previous button is not clickable
LATE REPLY BUT IT WILL BE HELPFUL FOR OTHERS IN FUTURE
The reason it is not-clickable because you are clicking the "page break" not the section break. Go to the page layout like he said and then click the 'next page'.
You have saved my bacon! Who knew it was that easy to create separate page numbers... I've spent HOURS trying to figure it out until I saw your video. Thank you so much!!
Sir, thank you so much ! This page numbering and headers/footers drove me mad for a long long time .
I would like to sincerely thank you for this video. I am self publishing my first book and honestly could not figure out how to do the page numbers. I watched numerous TH-cam videos and they were all long and pointless. This video was easy to understand and short. I FIGURED IT OUT :) THANKS TO YOU.
I SAW SO MANY VIDEOS ,,,ALL WERE USELESS
ur video s so simple and the best...thanku soooo much
The only video that actually helped. Clear and straight to the point.
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I have been working through this entire semester without knowing how to do this. It worked like a charm. Keep being awesome, and a hearty thanks from Canada!
Thank you Kent for saving me and all of my essays in past 3 years. It seems that I just can't remember how to do it, so I always go back to your video. Thank you!
Thank YOU for your kind words. All the Best!
You cannot imagine what a help this video has been to me. Thank you very much for putting it up.
Thank you very much.. Am submitting an assignment and this video was short and very helpful. Thank you
Mate, I just wanted to thank you. I've been trying to do it over and over again and NOTHING worked. This is so far the most helpfull and simple to understand video about this subcject. Thank you.
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You, sir, deserved an award. You can not imagine how many students' asses you have saved the very last minute :D
This is awesome, took me just 5 minutes to understand how this works ;) thank you
Thank you so much for very clear instructions. I'd spent over an hour trying to get this question answered and you presented it in just under four minutes. Well done!
Fast, simple answer to a seemingly tough problem! Thank you!!!
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Thank's a lot. MS word is so complicate for those who using them few times per year. Your video is helpful. Thank's again and live for us for more than 100 years ! :)
Thank you very much! It was very easily explained and I could do it in one shot.
after years of not figuring this out and countless hours of wasting time numbering instead of writing, you, my friend, have solved all my problems, now i can write this essay!
Excellent and fast tutorial without any complications, thank you!!
I'm writing my Diploma Paper and this video helped me in solving this frustrating problem.
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I've struggled with this for ages, so thanks very much for such a well-explained tutorial. You've saved me a lot of time and stress.
Thanks Kent for a superb video. Would like to add that if anyone wants add other numbering i.e. i, ii, iii etc to the previous sections just dont delete the numbers and format them by following following steps: Insert> Page numbers> format page numbers> number format.. and select the format you want. It was a great video and very helpful..cheers!!
Thanks you too guys, I appreciate that you all find the videos helpful.
A very big thanks for such a brief a clear explanation! You saved my day.
Thank you so much. Have tried for three hours!! Yours was the clearest demo. Discovered the problem was I had already selected different number for page 1 option which SCUPPERED the whole thing!
THANK YOOOOU
Thank you! I've struggled with arranging page number 1 later in the document for a long time. Very helpful tutorial.
Spent hours and HOURS trying to do this thank you so much you've just made my day :D
Thank you!!! I was actually contemplating on putting the page numbers manually via text box! So glad I found your video.
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But through this video, solved it in seconds !!
Explanation is simpler & better than Microsoft's official help site.
Finally! A video that actually shows the correct steps. TYVM
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thank u so much i have searched allot but after watching this video i learnt what i exactly wanted and it worked for me in word 2010
Today is May 15, 2015. I'm looking at this video because I can't believe how difficult it has been for me to figure out how to do this. Wow! Thank you for this video. I can finally finish my paper.
Thank you !! My essay for the Uni is FINALLY over. I was trying to get the numbers correctly for ages. :)
Thank you Kent. You were very helpful, even better than Word's own help wizard.
You are wonderful!! I have been trying to do this for the past one or so hours and here you are!!! In three minutes I was done!!!. Thank you so so so so so much!!
Thank you Kent. That was simple and very useful to me.
I have to watch this video every time I'm done with a document. Great work, you are a life saver. Why the hell does Microsoft have to make it this complicated though?
Thank you very much man.. I've been searching and trying it for like an hour ill I found out.. video really appreciated!
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Thank you for explaning this! So relieved!
Thank you so much. I was struggling with this for a while today - I needed to format like this for my dissertation and was having no luck.
Brilliant.
thankyousomuch!!! i've been sitting infornt of my latptop for hours now just to separate the pages till i decide to learn it from u tube.. thankyou again.
Best video about page numbers! Saved me!
Thank you!!! I've spent hours on figuring this out by myself or reading Microsoft instructions while trying to change the numbers in the annex of my dissertation. This has been so helpful, thank you so much!
Short and precise. I believe you are a teacher/lecturer.
Thank you Kent Löfgren! I knew there was a way to do this and you taught me perfectly. Thank you!
Thank you for this - it's one of those things I don't do very often and always forget how to do (or mess up!)
Thank you so very much, Sir! This was exactly what I needed, you saved my thesis paper :)
Thank you, thank you, thank you - for making Word so simple!
Thx. I am a kind of visual guy too. Sometimes relevant and focused tutorials in video format are the best imho.
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Kent, master of office software, savior of papers.
Thank you so much! I'm submitting an essay for publication that requires a title page and a page with all of my personal information before my actual text starts and figuring out how to start page numbers on page 3 completely stumped me. This was a very easy video to follow and solved my issue immediately. You're a lifesaver.
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Never posted a youtube comment before but I love you, writing my dissertation and saved my life. How on earth do microsoft expect us to 'guess' things like this...
Thank you so much, after struggling for ages I finally discovered how to do this!!
Thank you so much.. i spent so much time reading instructions on MS word help site but couldn't do it. But with your video i was able to do it right away. Thanks alot
Oh dear God! My thesis is now complete! THANK YOU!!! GOD BLESS YOU sir! Lol!
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