Please, i would like to know how to number pages in Word 2000...i need
to know how to have page numbers start on a page that is not the
'first page'(i have a title page, a table of contents page, and
credits page, all of which are NOT to be page-numbered) so page four
will be numbered page 1, page five will be numbered page 2,etc... and
that will run through the document...i have tried the help assistant,
and reading my word 2000 for dummies to NO AVAIL, please help
immediately?

Hi Mikersp - 

I know how unhelpful Microsoft's "help" can be. 

I hope these instructions explain it better. I used screen capture and
a graphics program to give you an idea what to look for:

What you want to do is:

Click on "View" and click on Header and Footer. 

You should get a floating Header and Footer toolbar like the one in
http://209.151.82.182/word2.gif.

Click on that third icon (it's circled, but looks like a hand holding
a page with a # in it).

When you click on that icon, you'll get a popup tool named "Page
Number Format" ... it is in the Page Number Format tool that you can
start your new page number (on what is really your page 4) - just
click on start with page 1 and choose the number styling you want to
use.

Once you learn where all these things are hidden, it's pretty easy to
do. It's just finding them that can get tricky.

I hope this helps,
Serenata

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Request for Answer Clarification by mikerps-ga on 10 Jan 2003 08:46 PST

hi well i have tried this and other combinations of choices for this
for the last 2hrs and still = "0"  nothing correct...

the page numbers will not start with "1" where i want tham to???

a section break or any kind of damned break does not seem to be
captured and obviously then not there...
mikerps

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Request for Answer Clarification by mikerps-ga on 10 Jan 2003 09:59 PST

ifound the problame-o..tis my overworked brain...
...it was more obvious than that 
it is the "show number on first page" dialog box 
that needed to be "UNselected"

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Clarification of Answer by serenata-ga on 10 Jan 2003 13:53 PST

Oh good!

Is it working for you then?? I hope my poor attemt at graphics helped.

You should see where they hide some other things I need to get to once in a while!

Yours ever so,
Serenata