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HOW TO ADD A PAGE-NUMBERING SCHEME TO A DOCUMENT’S FRONT MATTER IN WORD
Adding page numbers to a Word document is a simple task, but additional
requirements can complicate things. Learn how to format the page numbers in a
Word document’s front matter differently from the rest.
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Nothing’s simpler than displaying page numbers in a Word document. Doing so
requires only a few clicks. However, if you want to format the numbers in the
document’s front matter differently from the remaining document, you’ll need to
know a few tricks. Specifically, by adding a section break, Word lets you format
sections differently. In this document, I’ll show you how to format a document’s
front matter page numbers differently from those in the main document.
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I’m using Microsoft 365 on a Windows 10 64-bit system, but you can use an
earlier version. For your convenience, you can download the demonstration .docx
and .doc files. You can’t insert section breaks in Word for the web, so you’ll
want to use Word desktop. We’ll be working with Word headers, but everything
works the same in the footer.
HOW TO SET UP YOUR PAGE NUMBERING IN WORD
If you’re working with an existing document, review that document for existing
section breaks and page numbers that you’ll need to delete, modify or
accommodate. We’ll be working with a document that contains none of those
elements yet.
Here’s what we’re going to do:
* Add page numbers to the entire document.
* Drop in a section break between the front matter and the main document. The
front matter comprises a title page and a table of contents page.
* Break the link between the two sections, the front matter and the main
document.
* Add and format a new page-numbering scheme for the front matter.
It sounds complex, but it really isn’t and once you do this, page-numbering
beyond the simplest scheme, will make more sense.
1. HOW TO ADD THE PAGE NUMBERS IN WORD
Simple documents usually require a simple numbering scheme, which displays a
page number on all pages. To accomplish this using the document in Figure A, do
the following:
1. Double-click the header area to open it—it doesn’t matter what page you’re
on.
2. On the contextual Header & Footer tab, click Page Number in the Header &
Footer group.
3. Choose any scheme you like, but I chose the simplest, Plain Number 1.
Figure A
We’ll add page numbers to the header section in this Word document.
Figure B
All four pages are numbered.
As you can on Figure B, all four pages are numbered, 1 through 4, starting on
page 1, the title page. Next, let’s add a section break so Word lets us format
the numbers in the front matter differently from the numbers in the main
document (pages 3 and 4).
2. HOW TO INSERT A SECTION BREAK IN WORD
Word is flexible enough to allow different numbering schemes from page to page,
but it’s really section to section. A section is a group of page numbers with
different document-level formatting requirements.
Our demonstration document (Figure A) has four pages: a title page, a table of
contents page and two pages in the main document. The title page and table of
contents comprise the front matter. To insert a page break between the front
matter and the main document, do the following:
1. Double-click a header tab to close the header.
2. Enable the Show/Hide feature so you can see the page and section break
symbols.
3. Select the hard page break on page 2. The section break we’ll insert
includes a page break, so you don’t need the hard break currently there.
4. Click the Layout tab.
5. In the Page Setup group, click the Breaks option.
6. From the dropdown choose Next Page from the Section Breaks section. If
adding this break added a blank page, delete the Page Break.
Figure C shows the new section break.
Figure C
The section break.
Right now, the page numbers are still as they were. That’s because the two
sections are still connected. To disconnect them, click the Header -Section 2-
tab at the top of page 3. To the right, you should see the Same As Previous tab,
which describes the header relationship between the sections. If that’s not
there, someone has already disconnected the sections.
To disconnect the sections, do the following:
1. Click the Header -Section 2- tab at the top of page 3.
2. On the contextual Header & Footer tab, click Link to Previous in the
Navigation group. Click Yes to confirm the break.
That’s it! You’ll still see the Header -Section 2- tab, but the Same As Previous
tab is gone. This is a visual clue that the sections are no longer linked. Now
we’re ready to format the page numbers in the front matter.
3. HOW TO NUMBER THE FRONT MATTER IN WORD
Now we’re ready to fix the front matter page numbers. Click anywhere inside the
first section, page 1 or 2. If necessary, open the header section again, but
that section should still be open. Select a page number and choose Format Page
Number from the Page Number dropdown (on the contextual Header & Footer tab). In
the resulting dialog, select the I, ii, iii, … format from the Number Format
dropdown. Next, check the Start At setting in the Page Number section. If it
isn’t 1, enter 1, now, as shown in Figure D. Click OK to return to the document.
Page 1 is now i, page 2 is now ii, but pages 3 and 4 are still numeric digits.
Figure D
Change the format for the page numbers in the front matter.
The title page, page 1, still displays a page number, I, and we want to turn
that off. To do so, click the Different First Page option in the Options group.
Like magic, that page number disappears, as shown in Figure E.
Figure E
All four pages are still numbered but the formatting is different for the two
sections.
Adding a simple page number to every page is simple. Changing the format from
one page to another requires some additional work. By adding a section break,
you can format page numbers differently from one section to another.
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