MS Word Formatting Question - Please Help

[Maritime Q-Scout]

A friend of mine is trying to put together a paper for school, and the department wants specific formatting for it.

Here's bullet points from our MSN Messenger conversation:

- Everything after the table of contents is in normal page numbers. That's no problem

- So then, I need to install a section break before it so that I can number the pages before that in roman numerals. Again no problem

- But I'm not supposed to have my page #s visible until Page iv of the Roman Numeral section.....then I'm supposed to have two pages before that with no page #s at all, and that, i cannot seem to do

- Any ideas?

[llama64]

You'll probably need to use section specific headers & footers. It's been a while since I had to do anything that specific but I believe the option exists somewhere in the Page Options (or Page Setup).

[Teh_Bandwagoner]

Okay let's see if I understand this correctly: You're looking for:

Pg 1 to 3: TOC - No numbers
===Section Break
Pg 4 to Body: Roman Numerals
===Section Break
Body: Regular Page Numbers

If this is what you need, you're going to have to double click into the header for each section, then unlink the headers and footers from the previous. By default they link. Just press the "unlink" button in the header/footer toolbar. Then format the headers and footers as you see fit. The sections before and after will have no bearing if you unlink them all.

[Boblobla]

If you mouse over the icon the tool-tip is 'Link To Previous' make sure that is not highlighted and do what Teh_Bandwagoner said.