Hi, I'm Hilary and I'm going to show you
how to add page numbers to sections in MS Word.
For example, you might want your prelims
with roman numerals, your main text with arabic, and no number on the front cover.
Here's a word document and Step 1 is Show formatting.
So I just go to the Home tab and click on the pilcrow to show formatting.
Step 2 is to insert section breaks.
So I'm going to type the word Cover for my cover page, then go to layout,
choose Breaks and then Section break next page.
Then I'll type the word Prelims.
And again I'll go to Breaks and click on Section break next page.
And lastly I'll type Main.
So I've now got three sections with section breaks between them.
Now, Step 3 is to break the connections between those three sections.
So I'll go up to Prelims,
put my cursor in front of the word Prelims and I'll choose Insert.
Then I'll go to Footer and I'll go to Edit footer.
So now I'm in the footer of Section 2 and it says Same as previous.
So by default it's linked to the previous section.
To unlink it, I just click on Link to previous
on the ribbon so that's no longer grey and the Same as previous has disappeared.
Then I can scroll down to the footer
of my Main section and again by default that's linked to previous.
So again I can click on Link to previous and unlink it.
So now I've got three sections that are
not connected and the final step is to add the page numbers.
So for this I'll go back to Section 2, the Prelims, put my cursor in the footer.
Then I'll click Insert,
Page number and I'll choose Bottom of page and I'll choose the second option.
Then I'll select that page number,
right click and choose Format page numbers. That opens this box,
and under Number format you can choose the roman numerals.
Then when you click on Start at, it automatically goes to i.
So now you have roman numerals for the prelims.
Now you scroll down to the footer for the main text.
Put your cursor in there, choose Insert, Page number,
and again choose a page number at the bottom of the page.
Again select that number,
right click and choose Format page number.
And this time choose arabic numerals.
And again when you press Start at it will
automatically go to 1, then press OK to get back to your document
and if you scroll up, you'll find that you still have roman
numerals for your prelims and no number at all for your cover page.
So the four steps are Show formatting,
Insert section breaks, Break the connections, and then Add the page numbers.