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Pro Tip: After inserting your new page numbers, remember to update your table of contents.Sometimes you've got to make longer documents-such as business reports, school papers, and book-length materials.

Reselect the Show/Hide button in the Home tab to hide your formatting marks (see figure 2).

Select the Close Header and Footer button.įigure 17.

If you don’t have existing page numbers, continue to add them as shown in “ How to Add Page Numbers in Microsoft Word.” If you have existing page numbers, the section you just created should now start with the number you entered into the Page Number Format dialog box. For example, if your document is nine pages long, you can still start with page number 90. You can enter a page number that does not physically exist in your document.

Enter the starting page number in the Start at text box.

(Optional) Select an option from the Number format menu in the Page Number Format dialog box if you want to use a different format than your existing page numbers.

Select Format Page Numbers from the drop-down menu.

Select the Page Number button in the Header & Footer group.

When this button is deselected, its background color changes from dark gray to a light gray matching the rest of the ribbon.

Deselect the Link to Previous button to disconnect the headers or footers in the section you just created from the previous section.

Double-clicking opens the Header & Footer tab, which only appears when the headers or footers are selected.

Double-click in the header or footer area of the page where you want the page numbers to start.

The section break should appear at the bottom of the previous page.

Select the Next Page section break from the drop-down menu.

Select the Breaks button in the Page Setup group.

Place your cursor at the beginning of the page where you want the page numbers to start.įigure 4.

Select the Show/Hide button to show your formatting marks.

The following steps will work in documents with or without existing page numbers.

How to Start Page Numbers on a Specific Page