Generating a Table of Contents - Complex Documents
#HOW TO EDIT FOOTERS IN WORD 2016 MANUAL#
I also note that you are using a manual Table of Contents. Looking at the document again, after you run the macro, you'll need to restart your page numbering for the section that starts after your Table of Contents with page number 0.
#HOW TO EDIT FOOTERS IN WORD 2016 HOW TO#
Installing Macros for how to use this if you don't know how. PageNumbers.RestartNumberingAtSection = False Sections(secNum).Headers(wdHeaderFooterPrimary) _ I tried it on your document and I think it does what you want. At least some of them restart the page numbering. It has 12 sections, with multiple sections on a number of pages. Microsoft MVP (Word) since 1999 Fairhope, Alabama USA Screen shots captured with TechSmith's Snagit Better to straighten out the numbering in Section 1 first. That will add a blank page between the TOC and your page 1. You'll need to correct this because that makes your TOC page 1, so the next page cannot be page 1 (even after a section break) unless you use an Odd Page break, and Your initial problem with getting page 2 instead of 1 may have to do with section breaks as well, but if you added a cover page as a Word building block, it will be inserted as page 0, withĭifferent First Page enabled for the section, making the second page. Insert | Header & Footer | Page Numbers | Format Page Number and choose "Continue from previous section." Repeat this for every section till you get the page numbers continuous as desired. To correct this, click in the multicolumn section and go to Multicolumn sections in the middle of a page. Once you have set page numbering to start at a particular number in one section, that setting will be retained in each subsequent section unless you change it to "Continue from previous section." This includes sections that don't actually have footers, including I need to get this document corrected and to my client ASAP, so any technical help would be greatly appreciated. Microsoft tech support, they took over the document for over an hour, couldn't figure out the problem, and then sent me to. There is no reason that I can see why the footer is not numbering consecutively. I have columns on those pages, but my section breaks are continuous. Is fine the page numbers number consecutively until page 24. That's why I had to click reformat page # and then start with page 0. When I click continue footer from previous section, the page # begins as 2, not 1. I start the footer on actual page 3, but the footer # is page 1 (which is correct, what I want). There are no page #s on page 1 (title page) or page 2 (table of contents). The techs were unable to find the problem. This is also going to open a new Header & Footer Tools Design tab at the top of the window.PLEASE HELP!! I have tried everything, including calling Microsoft tech support. Step 2: Double-click inside the Header area of the document to make it the active section. It will not change the default settings for the Normal template, so other documents that you create in Word 2013 will not be affected by this change. The steps in this article will adjust the size of the header for the document that you are currently editing in Word 2013. How to Make a Smaller Header in Microsoft Word (Guide with Pictures) Our article continues below with additional information on making the header smaller in Word 2013, including pictures of these steps. Click inside the Header from Top field.How to Make the Header Smaller in Word 2013 Our guide below will show you two different settings that you can modify which will make the header section of your document smaller. It’s useful to put information in the header because it can repeat on every page.īut when you need to remove some of the white space from a document in Word 2013, two of the most common areas to look are the header and the footer.įortunately you can adjust some settings for both of these locations that will allow you to minimize the amount of space that they use. The header section of a Word document will typically contain some combination of information like your page numbers, name, or document title. Some of these are easier to adjust than others, especially if you need to make the header smaller in Word 2013. Your school or organization likely has some specific formatting settings that you need to follow.