Page numbering in word processing document

Hi John,

We can't see what you are doing, nor can we see which pop-up options are greyed, so "I followed the HELP instructions" is meaningless in terms of our knowing what actions you took and what results you saw.

Starting page numbering (at 1) "several pages into the document" requires:

• starting a new section with the page on which you want 'page 1' to appear.
• opening the Format inspector and choosing Section
• unchecking the box labeled "match previous section'
• changing the "Page numbers continue from previous section" menu item to Page numbers start at 1
• clicking in the header or footer box in which you want the page number to appear, then choosing the format of that page number from the 'number' pop-up.

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Regards,

Barry

Hi John,

My examples are in Pages 5.6.2. There may be differences in Pages 7.

"If I open the FORMAT inspector, I don't see SECTION.

SECTION is located in the DOCUMENT inspector."

My error. Sorry.

"When I INSERT > SECTION at page 7 from the toolbar, the page thumbnails blink. But there's no indication that the section includes anything but page 7."

Insert > Section inserts a Section (with the minimum one page) at the end of the document section containing the insertion point (by placing a Section Break at the end of the text on the last page of this section).

Insert > Section Break inserts a section break character at the location of the insertion point, pushing everything (text and objects set to Move with Text) after the insertion point and before the next section break into the new section.

I do remember having some difficulty getting the "continue from previous/start at n" settings to show, and didn't keep notes of the steps I took before they became available. Memory says changing the Headers and Footers checkboxes and/or the other available Section settings may have been involved.