As long as you see the section break, or the space between pages, you’re good.ġ1. If you need to, delete any blank lines inserted with the section break, but don’t delete the section break itself. From the Breaks menu, choose Next Page, which is found in the Section Breaks area of the menu.Ī section break is inserted, which starts a new page. On the Page Layout tab, choose the Breaks command from the Page Setup area.ġ0. You need to insert a section break, which may create a blank page, but you can fix that.ĩ. Go to the top of the page where the new page numbering will start. The second step of the operation is to change the style and the numbering.Ĩ. The page numbering position and style is now set. Choose a Roman Numeral style from the Number Format drop-down list. Page Numbering Format dialog box, Word 2007 version (though they all look alike).Ħ.
The Page Number Format dialog box appears, shown in Figure 2.įigure 2. Choose the Page Number item again, but this time choose the item Format Page Numbers from the menu. If you want to get fancy, you can place the page number directly into a header or footer. Choose the page number position and style from one of the top few menu items. From the Insert tab, choose Page Number from the Header & Footer group.Ĥ. The entire thing can already be written or you can just get up to the spot where you want to change page numbering styles.ģ. Rather than have you flit hither and thither through the book - especially given that there are currently four editions of the book actively in print - I’m listing the steps here for easy reference. (Yes, I’m the jerk.) They just aren’t found all in one spot. Happily, all the techniques described in the preceding paragraph can be found in my book. The second section changes the style back to standard numbering, but also restarts page numbering at page one. The first section features a page numbering style using Roman Numerals. The process works like this: You create a document and then split it into two sections, as shown in Figure 1. Document setup for switching page numbers.