Instructions for numbering pages from any page in Word quickly 2020

To number the page from the beginning of the document to the end of the document, surely you all know go to Insert -> Page Number. But with many Word documents, the first pages are the table of contents, the preamble, the list of drawings, the list of charts . that you only want to number the page from the beginning page with the content of the document. If you do not know how to number pages from any page in Word, then please refer to the article below.

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The article details instructions on page numbering from any page in Word quickly.

Step 1: Break the page starting from the page you want to paginate

Page breaks allow you to create a new section for your text. This new section starts from the page where you want to number the page to the end of the text. Each Section you can number different pages, unrelated to each other. To break a page, place your cursor at the top of the page that you want to start numbering as shown below.

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Next select the Layout tab -> Breaks -> Next Page.

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So you've separated the text into 2 sections, Section 2 starts from the page you want to paginate.

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Step 2: Number the page for the entire Word document

Select Insert -> Page Number -> choose the position and type of page numbering . At this time, the page number is still consecutive from Section 1 to Section 2.

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Step 3: Set the page number

This setup helps make the page numbers for each section start from the number you set (for example, if the page set starts with 1, the section 1 pages are also numbered from 1, section 2). The pages are also numbered from 1).

Select Insert -> Page Number -> Format Page Numbers.

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Appearing Format Page Numbers you choose the type of cell number in the Number format , select Start at the 1 (or any number you want to hit since the beginning of the section). Click OK to close.

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Once it's set up, both Section 1 and Section 2 are paginated starting from 1.

Step 4: Disconnect the links between the two sections          

Still at the header and footer interface, to disconnect between the two sections, select the Design tab -> click to uncheck Link to Previous to disconnect the two sections.

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Step 5: Delete the page numbers in Section 1

After having disconnected the two sections, the two sections were unrelated. If you only want to number the page from the page you have broken the page (Section 2), then you need to delete the page number in Section 1. Place the cursor on the page number of Section 1 and select Insert -> Page Number -> Remove Page Numbers .

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So you've deleted the page number on Section 1, the rest of the page on Section 2 is also the number of pages from any page you want.

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So with just 5 steps that the article has instructed, you can now number pages from any page in Word quickly. Good luck!