![]() ![]() Last note: if you’re looking at Word and what you see doesn’t match the screenshots in this article, it’s likely because your version of Word and mine are not the same. Microsoft Word is primarily a word processor and will always struggle to match tools like InDesign for page layout. Microsoft Word’s method of page numbering is much more challenging than tools like Adobe InDesign or Affinity Publisher-but these publishing programs are designed for more complex book layouts. This gives you the freedom to design the pages of your file without having to set up a section and ensures once you get to that step, there won’t be any additional changes to disrupt the page numbering. The best way to keep page numbering simple is to do it last. This will link the page numbering independently of the Footer linking, allowing us free to edit the Header/Footer for other content without breaking the page numbering. For each successive section, you’ll need to change the formatting when you insert the page numbers: select Continue from the previous section in the Page Number Format menu. With that done, add page numbering to the first section. If your chapters will have unique content in the header, you’ll need to insert section breaks at the end of each chapter. Click ‘OK’ for both menus and your page numbering will appear in the footer.īe sure to close the header and footer (just double-click in the body of your page) to see how the page numbering will look. Also set the Start at: to 1 so that the page I’m currently on will show ‘1’ in the footer. Select the alignment for your page numbering. Here we see the Page Number menu and the Format… menu opened beside it. While in the footer, the ribbon should swap to the header/footer menu and you’ll see the ‘Insert Page Numbers’ button. ![]() Head to the first page you want your numbers to appear on (probably the first page of the first chapter) and double-click on the footer. If you just used page breaks to separate chapters, you’ve got it easy.
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