My page numbers had been working pretty good over the last week so I thought I was past the page number problem but yesterday the page number (1) for the first page started showing up again. I did the steps you suggested yesterday and I still had 1 showing up on the first page. Today, this morning, again the 1 showed up again on another document and so not thinking it would help I did the same routine again. This time the 1 went away from the first page. To the bottom of that box you mentioned there is a format box button so that the different first page will remain checked. I clicked the button but I always clicked the "keep this format" button before but would still have the number 1 showing up. This time the number 1 did not show up again and so far with another paper the number 1 did not show up on the first page. I'll see how long this lasts. Frank -----Original Message----- From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dan Wingard Sent: Sunday, January 31, 2010 5:57 PM To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [mso] Re: Page Numbers Sorry for the extraordinary delay in getting back to you on this. I'm literally 2 weeks behind on my e-mails. On the extremely off chance that this question has not yet been answered in the easiest way: Click on the "Page Layout" tab. At the very bottom right of that grouping, you'll find a very tiny square button with an arrowhead pointing to the bottom right corner of it. Click on that and it brings up the old familiar dialog box from which you do what you want to do: click on the 3rd tab there, [layout], and select the check box which says "Different first page." Then edit the First Page Footer and remove the Pg.# field, if any. Dan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Frank C." <jocaan@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, January 16, 2010 5:31 AM Subject: [mso] Page Numbers > This is really getting to me. Previous to Word 2007 it was so easy to > install page numbers on your documents without including the page number > on > the first page. Now it is almost impossible to do that in Word 2007. > This > is taking a lot of my time. I can get every page to show the same number > with the number not showing on the first page. I can get the first page > to > show a number with the other pages not showing a number. I can get all > the > pages to show the same number. However I cannot get the first page to not > show a number and the other pages starting with page 2 showing the number > 2 > and page 3 showing the number 3, etc. I try to follow the instructions in > Help for showing page numbers. The other idiotic thing is that somehow I > had successfully started to have my documents not show a number on the > first > page and start showing the numbers sequentially, starting with 2 on the > second page but the process comes and goes on new documents, sometimes > working correctly and sometimes not working correctly without me doing > anything different. I cannot believe those Microsoft engineers can get > things so mixed up when everything was so simple, correctly carried out > and > straightforward previously. > Frank C. > > > > ************************************************************* > You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or > MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > To Unsubscribe from this group, visit the group's homepage and use the > dropdown menu at the top. 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