Hey, I'm writing a document in Office 2007 that contains one jpeg, and then quite a few charts and graphs. The first footer is different from the rest, because it is a disclaimer. As such, page numbers were set to start on "0" ... so my table of contents pages will start on 1 and it should in theory go on from there. Instead, what's happening is that it is numbering fine until page three, and then resets on page four at 0. then on page six it does it again, and at that point it numbers like it is supposed to until the end of the document.

So...what? Help?

Uhm, just set the header & footer of page one to unique, then order the pages like a normal human?

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Post has been edited 3 time(s), last time on Jun 29 2010, 6:12 pm by poison_us.

Use a section break.

Page 1 should have a different header and footer? Then put a section break at its end, and subsequent pages should then have different headers and footers. This can also be used to make different pages/sections/etc. have different settings regarding columns and other layout details.

Poison - The first page is different for the footer...they way you show is the only way I know how to do it. And what do you mean by "order pages like a normal human?" It is ordered as normal as you can get...the only difference is that I set it so that my cover page was considered '0' and table of contents considered '1' ... I don't know any normal-er way to do it.

David - can you tell me more about section breaks? That must be the problem. Here's a screen shot. Its a little blurry, but hopefully you can see my general settings at the top, and of course the Footer is denoted as Section 2 for the first time on this page, and resets numbering.

IIRC it's Page Layout > Forget Which Group > Breaks [drop-down]. That drop-down is split into two chunks: Page Breaks and Section Breaks.

I fixed it. It had to do with the sections. Just in case anyone runs into the same problem, you can search for section breaks via find & replace by hitting Ctrl+H, clicking more, clicking special, and then selecting section breaks to delete them all.

What a pain. It looks like what happened was that I had section breaks in the way I had split up some of the data. Irritating.