If you want to add to the discussion, use the comment box at the bottom of the page. (These comments were from a previous commenting system. The cursor jumps to the next page (or creates a new page if there is. Click Breaks, then under Section Breaks, select Next Page. On the ribbon, select the Page Layout tab and find the Page Setup group. If you are creating appendices that need their own numbering stream (A1, A2, B1, B2, etc.), just repeat the process to create a new section. To create sections so you can style the page numbers, follow these steps: Insert your cursor at the bottom of the last page of your front matter. Now you can format the numbering in the body of the document and it won’t change the numbering in your front matter. Put the cursor at the end of the first range and click Page Layout > Breaks > Next page. If Link to Previous is grayed out, it means you only have one section in your document so there are no sections to link or unlink.) If you want to add different formats of page numbers in different page ranges of a documents, do as follows: First, divide the document into page ranges by using section break. Once you hover over the words the button appears. (To deselect Link to Previous, just click the words. This breaks the connection between the footer in this new section and the footer in the previous section.
Submitted by Stephen from the United Statesįormatting page numbers differently for the various parts of your Microsoft Word document can be accomplished by creating sections. Basically, I want to be able to format page numbers with Roman numerals and traditional numbers as well.