r/MicrosoftWord • u/Early-Librarian-6702 • 20h ago

need help Please help for numbering

Can someone tell me the quickest way to add page numbers in Ms Word 2007 to all pages at once.

Whenever I try to add it either messes up and numbers only 9 pages at once

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u/OwnAlternative 20h ago

Any section breaks in the document? This can screw up the page numbering.

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u/Early-Librarian-6702 19h ago

To be honest I don't know. I can't detect the problem it's only numbering 9 pages at most 

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u/Caudebec39 18h ago

We know. You have section breaks.

Page numbering falls under header/footer content, which are section-specific.

You can make consecutive footers share the same content by going into each one and making it "Same as Previous".

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u/TelevisionKnown8463 17h ago

And to ensure you get all the sections, go to the footer and click “next section” to get to the one without the page numbers.

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u/AlternativeWild3449 18h ago

Embed the page number in a footer.

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u/jiminak 17h ago edited 17h ago

You have section breaks. Page numbering applies to sections. Click into your header/footer, and you will see something like “odd page section 1”. Scroll down 9 pages to the first page without a page number, and you’ll see “section 2”. Copy/paste your page number from the first section into the second section, and configure it to “continue numbering from the previous section”. Repeat for all subsequent sections.

Or, alternatively, you can configure each sections to “match the previous section”. Some people don’t want this because they want a chapter title at the top of each chapter page, so they cannot have chapter 2 match chapter 1, however they CAN have their page numbering continue from the previous numbering.

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u/mh_ccl 16h ago

For chapter titles, use a paragraph style for the chapter title, then insert a styleref field in the header. Then you can use same as previous.

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u/jiminak 16h ago

Sometimes you don’t want the chapter title in the body, though.

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u/BereftOfCare 16h ago

When you're in one footer where you put the page numbers go to 'next' and click 'same as previous'.

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u/Brilliant-Diamond-35 13h ago

I had so many issues in a big document that I ended up copy paste to a new document, and then used a footer for the page number.

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u/RetiredUpNorthMN 2h ago

Header or footer area