In this video we are going to see how to add page numbers starting at the first page, for
your first chapter and before we get into the video, let's first see on a real book
how it looks like. Am going to use this book for that.
So, here's the book. And we've got the praise for the book with
no page numbers. And we've got the copyrights page again with no page number at the footer
and then the dedications page with no page number. We've got the contents section here
with no page number at the footer again. And then the Foreword without any page number
on its first page whereas it has got the roman numerals at the footer here for its 2nd and
3rd pages. Then the introduction again no page number at the footer for its first page
but has the roman numerals continued on its 2nd and 3rd pages. And finally, comes our
hero the Chapter 1, with no page number on its first page but it has got the page number
2, 3, 4, 5 and so on and so forth. So, now we are going to see exactly how to do this
in our Word document. The secret to adding page numbers starting
at first page for your first chapter is in using 'Section breaks'. You might have used
page breaks to separate different portions of your front pages and all the different
chapters. But if you want to see different stylings for your page numbers, then go for
section breaks instead of the page breaks. So, here, for my cover page, and other front
pages like dedication page, quote page, copyrights page, i don't want to show
any page numbers. But i really want to begin showing page numbers from the disclaimer page
- not in the regular numerals, like the Arabic numerals but in roman numerals.
To do that, I will first ensure that this is a NEW SECTION, and not after a page break.
See, this is a page break, so i will delete this, then goto Layout tab, and click on Breaks
to add a new section break, immediately after my copyrights section before my disclaimers
page. I will do the same for all my previous sections. So the section breaks have all been
added for all my pages before my disclaimer page, and in case if you are not able to see
any of these extra characters, please go to the Home tab and enable this Paragraph icon,
so that you can show all the Paragraph marks like your section breaks and page breaks.
Coming to here, I would just double click on the footers area to start adding my footers.
Once I double-click here, this header and footer tools design tab automatically opens
up and under the Header & Footer tab group, click on the Page Number and Bottom of Page
and select however you want to add your page number. I would select the plain number 2
to add my page number and then click on again the Page Number, and select Format page numbers
to say 'Start at' 1. And I could change however I want it to style it. In this case, I would
like to give it as Roman numerals, so I would say Roman Numerals and start at 1.
This adds a number 1 to my this page. And there are no page numbers for my contents
section as you can see. Although, however, there are page numbers added to my Cover pages
and the front page sections. To remove them, double-click here and just delete them. Sometimes,
deleting them would also delete the other page numbers. So let's go and check them now.
Yeah, these are all gone over here, and for my disclaimer page, it's also gone. So I would
click here, add a page number, format it to show that I want to start it at 1 within Roman
numeral and ensure that this button, which says 'Link to Previous' is not enabled. So
I'll deselect that and of course I don't want to show my first page number on the first
immediate page but from the second page onwards. So I would just say 'Different First Page',
checking this box should remove my page number from this footer; but it'll have the roman
number 2 added to my second page. Here's our chapter 1, where in I want to keep this footer
empty, but add my footer from here. So, to do that, i would just go to my chapter 1 page,
click here and say different first page, start my footer from the second page of my chapter
1. Add the page number, format it to start from page number 2 and uncheck this Link to
Previous. That's all. So, when I goto my chapter 1, there will not be any page number on my
chapter 1 page and from this page onwards it'll say page number 2, then 3, 4, 5, and
so on and so forth. So, this is how you add a different starting page number for your
first chapter and for all the other remaining chapters.
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