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This particular formatting problem has been mine for a long time! Talk about frustrating! In any case, I followed the instructions to the “t” and it worked perfectly! Needless to say, I bookmarked this site and page for future reference!Great site! Thank you….īarn-I’m glad this tip helped you solve a long-time problem with Microsoft Word. If you want to add to the discussion, use the comment box at the bottom of the page.

(These comments were from a previous commenting system. If you are creating appendices that need their own numbering stream (A1, A2, B1, B2, etc.), just repeat the process to create a new section. Note that doing this once sets the formatting for all heading levels. Now you can format the numbering in the body of the document and it won’t change the numbering in your front matter. If you need subsections numbered (for example, 2.1, 2.2, 2.12, etc.) as well, then choose the list the 1 Heading 1 1.1 Heading 2, etc. If Link to Previous is grayed out, it means you only have one section in your document so there are no sections to link or unlink.) Once you hover over the words the button appears. (To deselect Link to Previous, just click the words. This breaks the connection between the footer in this new section and the footer in the previous section. The last page of my document was intended for A3 landscape pictures with tiny margins but the parts before that were A4 portrait with specific margins, headers.

On Header & Footer Tools tab, in the Navigation group, deselect Link to Previous.

This activates the Header & Footer Tools tab on the ribbon.

Go to the bottom of the first page of this new section and double-click inside the footer.

Be careful not to delete the section break (you can see it by pressing Ctrl+*). You may need to remove a few line breaks to bump your content back up to the top.

The cursor jumps to the next page (or creates a new page if there is no next page).

For more information, read our Page Numbers lesson from our Word 2016 tutorial. You can change the font, color, size, and more. To reformat your numbering, select the page number, then go back to the Home tab. From there, you'll be able to select Start at: 1.

Click Breaks, then under Section Breaks, select Next Page. To restart your numbering, click the Page Number command, then choose Format Page Numbers.

On the ribbon, select the Page Layout tab and find the Page Setup group.

Insert your cursor at the bottom of the last page of your front matter.

To create sections so you can style the page numbers, follow these steps:

Put the cursor at the end of the third page, and click Page Layout > Breaks > Next page. Put the cursor at the end of the first page, then click Page Layout > Breaks > Next page. Then each section can have its own numbering sequence and style. Firstly, you need to insert section breaks to divide the whole document into three sections. Submitted by Stephen from the United Statesįormatting page numbers differently for the various parts of your Microsoft Word document can be accomplished by creating sections.

Basically, I want to be able to format page numbers with Roman numerals and traditional numbers as well.