Another one of those formatting questions.

[deathpixie]

Not for Alvin this time, tho'.

Margaret has a document in Word 2000 (since that's what we use here). She needs to have it page numbered, and she needs to be able to start the numbering at the second page, since the first page is a coversheet. Only, we can't make the damn thing start at page 1 - it's defaulting to page 2 and nothing I've tried (including some complicated internet instructions involving making the page breaks continuous) can fix it. So, you clever internet people, anyone got a solution for me? It's driving us all completely insane and the document needs to go out this afternoon electronically.

It's especially not good for me to be this frustrated and stressed since yesterday was a Bad Day for me depression-wise. Help?

Edit: Got it. I have no idea how, but I got it. Thanks, [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com]

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[nute.livejournal.com]

http://word.mvps.org/faqs/numbering/PageNumbering.htm

[hopeness.livejournal.com]

The quick and dirty way would be just to make the coversheet a different document... but here is step-by-steps from the Microsoft Website:

Format Page Numbering
To format the page numbering for different sections, follow these steps:

1. Click between two parts of your document that you want to number differently.
2. On the Insert menu, click Break.
3. Click Next Page, Even Page, or Odd Page, and then click OK.

For Help on an option, click the question mark, and then click the option.
4. Click in the first section.
5. On the View menu, click Header and Footer.
6. Click in the header or footer where you want the page number.
7. On the Header and Footer toolbar, click Insert Page Number.
8. On the Header and Footer toolbar, click Format Page Number.
9. In the Number format box, click the format that you want for the numbers in this section.
10. Do one of the following:
* If you want the page numbering for the first page in this section to start at a particular number other than the first number in the format series, click Start at under Page numbering, and then enter the first number that you want to appear on the first page of the section.
* If you want the page numbering to continue from the previous section, click Continue from previous section.
11. Click OK.
12. On the Header and Footer toolbar, click Show Next.
13. Repeat steps 8 through 11 for the page numbering in this section.
14. On the Header and Footer toolbar, click Close.