In this short tutorial I will show you how to insert page numbering in MS Word, but starting from a specific page. Page numbering is a very useful option, especially when you're writing bigger documents like essays, dissertations, or books. If you have a table of contents, having your pages numbered can save you (and all other readers) a lot of time and effort in reading around. And if you decide to go for a hard copy, page numbering is essential. However, writing a bigger essay or a book also means you will have a cover page, a table of contents page and probably one blank page at the start, and you can't have your pages numbered from the table of contents. That's why it's useful to have MS Word start numbering your document from a specific page.
Even though it might sound hard to accomplish, it is actually quite simple and can be done in less than a minute. fullwidthad. Choose the page you want to start numbering from. Navigate the cursor to the beginning of that page and go to Page Layout Breaks. Choose the Next Page option. What this does is creates a section break and starts a new section on the page you requested. Navigate to Insert Page Number.
I want to add header to my document. The header that I want should include two things: The first one is a field for header 1 the second one is a static word, which is 'Part 1' Just a side note, i. Macos microsoft-word-2011. Click 'Page Number' on the 'Insert' tab in the 'Header and Footer' group, and select the page numbers you want. Word will begin numbering pages again, still counting the pages on which you omitted the numbers. Repeat the process as necessary. Show Comments.
Choose whatever you find pleasing to the eye. For the purpose of this tutorial, we will choose Bottom Of Page.
Click to enlarge In the panel that opens, you can see a gallery of built in headers that you can choose. The different headers available give different layouts for the text and other elements you need to display in the header. You can also insert a blank header and format it yourself manually. We’ll use a blank header for our example. The blank header should appear at the top of the list, so click on that to insert it.
A header will appear with a default text box that you can start typing in. You will also see the Header & Footer Tools tab appear in the ribbon. In our example, we’re going to display the document name in the header, so type “Document: ” in the box. We’re not going to type out the document name ourselves.
Instead, we’ll let Word do that by inserting a field. On the Header & Footer Tools tab, click Insert Quick Parts Field, and then select FileName and click OK. Leaving the Format selection as none ensures that the capitalisation used in the document name is used here.
By default, the text and field that we’ve just added will be left aligned. Suppose we need to align them to the right of the document. In that case, position the cursor at the start of the text and, still on the Header & Footer Tools tab, click Position Insert Alignment Tab.
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Select the Right option and then click OK. Everything should now be right aligned. Also on the Alignment Tab window, you can see options for left aligning and centering. When you’ve finished making changes to the header, you can close the header area by either clicking on the Close Header and Footer button to the right of the ribbon, or by double clicking anywhere in the document itself. Similarly, to open up the header area again, you can double click on the header. Insert A Footer We follow a similar process when we insert a footer in our Word document: click Insert Header & Footer Footer.
Again, a gallery of footer designs is presented and we can click on one to insert it. We’ll select the blank one at the top of the list and format it ourselves. One of the things we’ll add is a page number to each page. To add the page number to the footer, click Insert Text Quick Parts Field, and in the field list on the left select Page. Adding Page Numbers To Word If all you want is to add page numbers to your footer, then you should read our tutorial on how to add page numbers to Word (coming soon).