"Please help--none of the old answers to similar questions are working for me!"
Which begs the question "What are the "old answers"?
They are very likely the same as the "current answers."
Let's assume that you want the numbering to start on the fifth page, and that you want the numbering to start at 1.
- Go to the View menu and choose Show Invisibles.
- Examine the fourth page. The last characters on it will be either a Page Break, or a column of Paragraph Breaks.
- If it's a Page Break, select it, and all of the paragraph breaks up to and including the paragraph break following the last text on that page
- If it is a column of paragraph breaks, select all of them up to and including the one following the last text on the page.
- With the selection made, go to the Insert menu and choose Section Break.
The paragraph breaks (and the page break, if present will disappear, replaced by a section break immediately after the last text on the page.
Click on the fifth page (the one after the new Section Break, then
Open the Document Inspector by clicking the Document button to the right of the Format brush.
- Choose Section
- Uncheck the box labeled Match Previous Section.
- Click the Page Numbering menu and choose the numbering format you want. The bar will change to that format, and the part shown below the numbering will appear.
- Click the radio button beside Start at: and change the number in the box to 1.
- If that number does not appear in the header or footer box you chose previously, click in that box, then go to the Insert menu and choose Page Number.
Remove the page numbers from the first four pages:
- Click on the box containing the page number on any one of the first four pages. Select the number and press delete.
Done.
Regards,
Barry
