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From: steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield)
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Subject: Re: Page Numbering
Message-ID: <1991Mar6.000520.22130@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 6 Mar 91 00:05:20 GMT
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In article <1991Mar5.181907.17946@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> Christopher.C.Kagy@dartmouth.edu (Christopher C. Kagy) writes:
#>In article <969@ub.d.umn.edu> halam1@ub.d.umn.edu (Haseen I. Alam) writes:
#>
#>   2) I am writing my senior project report using Word 4.0.  I added the page
#>   numbers and did the first page special to remove the numbering from the
#>   first page.  But then the second page starts (the one after the cover page) 
#>   says #2.  I need to have that say #1 (Instructor DICTATES!!).  I tried to
#>   set the starting page number to zero, but that does not work, since I
#>   guess that how word carries the proper number to linked files.  I guess I
#>   can have the cover as a separate file, but that sounds awkward.  Is there
#>   any way to start the page numbering at 1 but from the second page?
#>  
#>Make the first page a seperate section from the rest of the document, then
#>begin page numbering at page 1 of section 2.  Hope this helps.
#>
#>Chris Kagy

The other solution is to put the first page at the end and
to suppress its page number.

Steve Goldfield