This page will inform you about page numbers, including:
Microsoft Word provides you with the option of selecting a numbering style (e.g. “Roman Numeral”, “Arabic”) and gives you the option of selecting the “starting at” number. You can set the page numbers for your entire document, or if you need more control, you can do it section-by-section as well.
If you want continuous pagination that is all in the same format, go to the Insert Ribbon, and in the Header & Footer Group, click on the Page Number icon. Choose the appropriate placement of the number and a style.
Some dissertation guidelines have more complicated pagination. For example, some guidelines require that the page numbers begin on the third or fourth page of your document (depending on if you include a graphical frontispiece) and the page number on that page should be Roman numeral “ii”. Page numbering should continue on in roman numerals until the first page of Chapter 1 is reached. At that point, the numbering should restart in Arabic (“1, 2, 3…”).
To accomplish this, we are going to divide the document into different “sections”, break them apart (so they can have different page number formatting), and then add the page numbers. In some cases each chapter must start with a number at the bottom of the page while the rest of the pages of that chapter are numbered at the top of the paper. This can be accomplished by performing the "section break" technique between the first page of the chapter and the rest of the chapter.
View this video and or see the written sections below on how to achieve this.
Using Sections to Control Page Numbering
The following instructions demonstrate numbering a dissertation document according to general guidelines. These steps assume you are including a title page, a copyright page, dedication and acknowledgements and other front matter, and then the body of your dissertation.
You have just separated your dissertation into sections. Remember the following from above. In some cases each chapter must start with a number at the bottom of the page while the rest of the pages of that chapter are numbered at the top of the paper. This can be accomplished by performing the "section break" technique between the first page of the chapter and the rest of the chapter. If you want to see what section you are working in, at the left end of Status Bar (at the bottom of your Word document), Word tells you what page you are on, how many words are in your document, which section you are in, and so on.
If you don’t see the section information, right-click on the Status Bar, and select Section in the menu that appears.
Breaking the Connection Between Sections
By default, the headers and footers of each section are connected to those of the sections before and after it. Therefore, if you want different page number styles to vary from one section to the next (such as Roman or Arabic), you’ll need to break the connection between the sections. Particularly with landscaped pages, it is often helpful to break the connection in the header as well as in the footer.
You have now successfully unlinked footers of these sections. Any page numbers you put in the body of your document will not affect the page numbering of your front matter, and vice versa.
Adding the Page Numbers