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From: tomj@oakhill.UUCP (Tom Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Word 3.02 Numbering Question
Keywords: Use Sections to solve wierd problems
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Date: 29 Jul 88 19:35:37 GMT
References: <11064@oberon.USC.EDU>
Reply-To: tomj@oakhill.UUCP (Tom Johnson)
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In article <11064@oberon.USC.EDU> robiner@ganelon.usc.edu (Steve) writes:
>OK, Word Wizards come to my rescue.  How can I set up a document so that
>the first page is zero?  I want the real page 2 to be numbered 1.  I can
>get the number on the first page to disappear, and I can also set it to
>any positive number, but when I set it to zero, it stays at one.
>
>What I want to do is have a title page as the first page and then the real
>document ( I know I can just use a separate document, but that's a pain 
>and besides, this SHOULD work. )
>
>=Steve=

This is a **relatively** simple problem.  Set the first page apart from the
remainder of the document with a **section** break (i.e. cmd-enter) rather
than either a soft or hard page break (word does the former on a repaginate,
the user creates the second with a shift-enter).  Now position the cursor
somewhere in the first page and choose the Section... selection from the
FORMAT menu.  Make sure page numbering is turned off.  Position the cursor
somewhere in the 2nd section, choose section formating again, and make sure
that page numbering is turned ON, with the "Restart from 1" option.

That's all there is to it.  I tried it prior to responding, and it worked
for me.  The reason I said **relatively** easy is that if the text for your
first page is apt to expand to greater than a single page, you will have
to do repaginates and adjust everything so that only a single page is in
section 1.  Otherwise, you will end up with multiple "page 1's".
--TomJ--
*Disclaimer:  Motorola rarely listens to me, why should I speak for them?