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Complex Pagination in Word 2010: Pagination Instructions

How to do complex pagination using section breaks and delinking in Word 2010

Follow these instructions

A. First I always delete any and all pagination schemes the patron brings me. I want to start with a clean slate. This is not always possible. You may think you have found every pagination quirk that a patron has inadvertantly created, but you may stumble across one later. If so, delete it then.

a. To delete a pagination scheme simply right click on the numeral.

b. Delete it.

c. That should take care of that page and all other pages with that particular pagination scheme.

B. Having deleted all known pagination schemes from the document, our first task is to make sure the title page has no numbers. This means we must establish the title page as its own section.

C. Click in the title page--so that you are not seeing any header or footer formatting information. In other words you cursor should be positioned as if you were about to add text to the title page.

D. Go to the Page Layout menu on the famed Ribbon--which runs across the top of every recent Word installation. Alt + P will take you straight to this menu.

a. On the Page Layout menu go to the Breaks submenu.

b. Within the Breaks submenu, scroll down to Section Breaks and select Next Page.

E. This will create a new section on the next page. This means the title page will become its own section--with no page numbers.

F. Go to the next page, the first page of the new section. Now we have to delink the formatting of the new section from the old section (the title page).

G. Go to the Insert Menu on the Ribbon. Alt + N will get you there.

H. Within the Insert Menu go to the Header submenu.

I. Within the Header submenu, click on Edit Header

J. Clicking on Edit Header will open up a new menu.

a. On this menu click on Link to Previous Section. This should be highlighted in orange.

b. After you click on it, the highlighting should go off. This means the Header is now delinked from the previous section. See image below.

K. Now repeat the same delinking process for the Footer.

a. Go to the Insert Menut (Alt + N)

b. Go to Edit Footer

c. Unlink from Previous Section

L. Now that you have delinked the section, you can apply the pagination scheme you want.

M. When you get to the end of the section you want specially paginated:

a. Insert a new "Next Page Section Break

b. Repeat steps D through L above.