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While page two is active, you can then select the *Format Page Number* icon
from the *Header and Footer* toolbar and instruct Word to start page
two page numbering with the numeral 1 (if that's what you want to do).
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Chris Morton <salt -dot- morton -at- gmail -dot- com>wrote:
> First of all, the teachers stating that "it' always been done like this" is
> the same as them still insisting that we double-space after punctuation.
> That is, the teachers are mistaken. Sadly so.
>
> Second, it's fairly simple to make Word behave in this regard if they
> absolutely* insist *on their (mistaken) position. In the *Page Setup* dlg
> box, click the *Layout* tab and then engage *Different first page*. You do
> not need to mess around with section breaks.
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Ben Davies <bdavies -at- imris -dot- com> wrote:
>
>> Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't it ALWAYS been difficult to force Word
>> to ignore front matter pages when applying page numbers?
>>
>> You have to use section breaks, and different page number styles, and be
>> rather competent in how headers and footers work to make Word ignore the
>> front matter pages... this has always been a reality in my experiences with
>> Word (all the way back to Word 97).
>>
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>> techwr-l-bounces+bdavies=imris -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com] On Behalf Of Becca
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>> Subject: starting on page 2?
>>
>> In two classes that I'm taking, we've been given specific formats for our
>> projects... and they always start on page 2, with the cover page being
>> considered as page one. I've asked both teachers about this, and they both
>> feel that this is the way it's always been done.
>>
>> Since when has a cover page been considered page 1? I've noticed in Word
>> 10 that it takes a ton of finessing to get the first real page to be
>> paginated as page 1, that it's automatically determined that the cover page
>> is page 1.
>>
>> When did this change take place? and why? And why does Word enforce it so?
>>
>> -becca
>>
>>
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