How to set the page number for Word

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1. Segmented first

To set the footer from a specified page, you must divide a document into different sections so that the footer is not continuous all the time! For example, if I want to subdivide the cover and the catalog, then I click on the bottom of the cover to enter the editing state, and then click "Page layout-> next Page" to insert the splitter.

two。 Choose whether to link to the previous section

The same section can link the footer of the current page to the previous page, but not different sections, so you can use sections to set the page number from 1. Double-click the cover footer area to edit the footer:

Because the footer does not need to be set on the cover, click "Design-> next section":

Because the table of contents does not need to set the page number, so I click "next section" again. Here, the "link to the previous header" can be cancelled or not, because the previous section has no page number set on the cover, so it doesn't matter even if the link is set:

From the directory section click "next section" to the first page of the text, now is the text section, we start from the first page of the text to set the page number, because we want to use this page as the first page, so to cancel the "link to the previous header":

3. Add page number

Then we can click "insert-> Page number" to format the page number. Here, you must select "start page number from 1" to cancel the previous section:

Click OK, and then click "Page number" to insert an appropriate page number. I usually use the style of "Page bottom-> Page number Center":

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