How to edit page numbers in Word

Question

Is there any way you can NOT add page numbers to the first few pages of a document? I would like to leave the first 9 pages without page numbers as they are the abstract, acknowledments and table of contents of a thesis. I want the page numbers to start on my first chapter. Can anyone help please? Its urgent.

Answer 1

Try this (Word XP (2002) and adjacent versions.  Word Vista (2007) should have a similar facility):

1. At the top of the first page you want numbered, click the Insert->Break menu item.

2. Insert a Next Page type section break.

3. Move the cursor down a few lines so it's in the new section you just created.

4. Click on the View->Headers and Footers menu item. You should now see and be able to edit the section's header.

5. One of the icons on the Headers toolbar that pops up, probably the fifth from the right, will say "Same as Previous" when you hover the cursor over it. Click it to disconnect the header from the previous one.

6. The one to its right will say "Switch between Header and Footer" Click it.

7. You're now in the footer. Repeat step 5.

8. A third icon, probably the one to the right of the Switch one, will say "Move to Previous" Click it. You've now moved to the footer of the first section.

9. If there's a page number in the header or footer for this section, delete it.

10. Close the toolbar.

11. Go into the second section.

12. Click on the Insert->Page Numbers menu item.

13. Click on the Format button.

14. If you want the first section’s page numbers to count but not show, click Continuous.

15. Or, if you want the page numbering to start at one, click Start At.  A 1 should show up in the list box adjacent to it.

16. Click OK.

17. Click OK to actually insert the page number.

That should do it.  What you now have is two sections. Both sections have headers and footers, but the page number will appear only in the second section.

Answer 2

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Numbering/Page...

Answer 3

keep different word documents for your acknoledgments and contents and that, and have a different folder for your main thesis number the thesis document and dont number the contents ectyou will have two documents but keep them in the same folder and just print one after the other.......does that help????