January 16, 2006

Because I've been eating the lead paint chip doritos again

I'm a loser---how do you format Microsoft Word so that the page number 1 appears on the second page, leaving the first page as the unnumbered title page?

My brain is not working this morning.

UPDATE: O tempora, o mores!

Why was my first reaction to this problem to post it as a question rather than try to look it up in the documentation?

Why do I use google now when I'm writing instead of a dictionary? Or, when exactly did that happen?

Posted by Steve at January 16, 2006 10:46 AM | TrackBack
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Summon the Paper Clip Guy!

Display or hide the page number on the first page

If your document is divided into sections, click in a section or select multiple sections in which you want to display or hide the page number on the first page.

On the Insert menu, click Page Numbers.

Select or clear the Show number on first page check box.

Posted by: The Colossus at January 16, 2006 10:52 AM

For the first page, go to VIEW/Header and Footer. The toolbar that pops up has a button with a "1" on it, that is for the different 1st page header. Click on that (you can leave the header blank). Go to next page, go into VIEW/Header and Footer again. Click on the # button. If it gives you the wrong number, you can also click on the "format page" button and change the start number.

Caveat: This is on a Mac. Details may be different for an evil M$ Windoze machine...

Posted by: LB buddy at January 16, 2006 10:56 AM

Hahhahahahhahaa! One of the all-time best post titles ever.

Posted by: Sadie at January 16, 2006 01:20 PM