In the document I’m using an example, I would suspect that the aurhor has added some sort of breaks to make the contents page and then main text start on new pages. If you plan to insert section or other breaks in a document, it’s useful to be able to see what breaks you have in there already. Let’s learn how to do that … How do I see what formatting I have in my document? How do you do this? First of all, you need to divide your document into discrete sections, using section breaks. Look at a non-fction book or someone else’s thesis and you’ll see that this is how they’re often laid out. Now imagine that you’d like to have different page numbering for different parts of the document – for example, no page numbering on the title page, Roman numerals for the contents pages, and then the numbering continuing in Arabic numerals for the main body of the text. Imagine that you’ve written a thesis or a book – something that has a title page (red), a contents list (blue) and then the main body of the text (yellow). How can I have different page number formats in different parts of my document? This will be particularly useful if you’re formatting the page numbers on a PhD or other thesis or dissertation – many of my student clients don’t know how to do this, which is what inspired me to write this series of articles.

how to have page numbers in different formats in your document.

how to stop your first page displaying a page number.

We’re already learned the basics of adding page numbers to a Word document, and now we’re going to look at some more things you can do with page numbers, including:

Word document numbering rules