Begin the Numbering in Word on the Second Page.

Posted on March 7, 2008
Filed Under Word Tips & Tricks

Okay, it’s time for some cool Microsoft Word Tricks. Yesterday I showed you how to number you pages in MS Word. Well that wasn’t really special. Today I want to take it a step further. As I said yesterday; the standard setting of the page numbering in MS Word is that the numbering starts from the first page which is probably your cover.

If you are working on a multi-paged document then you most likely don’t want to number your cover and your index pages. There are two ways to stop this so you’ll be continuing the numbering on any page that you want.

We’ll continue from the moment that we created the numbering in your document.

The first Trick is to begin the numbering on the second page.

Select your document.
Go to the tab Page Layout.
Click on the Page Setup Dialog Box launcher.

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Here you’ll need to select the Layout tab.
And check mark Different first page.

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Click OK and you’re page will look like this.

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The second possibility is to start numbering on the second page with 1.

You’ll need to follow the steps for removing the page number from the first page.
The go to the Insert tab
And click on Page Number
And click on Format Page Numbers.

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And in this window you’ll need to enter 0 in the start at box.

And your document now looks like this.

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I hope you’ll like these Word Tricks. Have a great weekend and ill talk to you all on Monday. See you!!

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