Your field code for the Y page number should now look very similar to this:

Position the insertion point just between the final two right braces.Word inserts another empty set of field code braces. Word inserts an empty set of field code braces. At this point the field is probably highlighted automatically by Word. Position the insertion point just before the Y page number.In that case you'll need to simply make a bit more complex change to the field codes used for the page number. This approach will not work, however, if you have more than the single section break in your document. Press Alt+F9 again, and your page numbering should be correct, showing of 79. Just make the change to the second field, replacing the letters 'NUM' with 'SECTION'. This displays all the field codes in the document instead of the field code results.

You can make the change by simply positioning the insertion pointer in the footer, next to the page numbers, and pressing Alt+F9. Your field code would, essentially, look like this: This field returns the total number of pages in the section (the main body of the document) instead of the total page count for the document. If your document has only two sections in it (one for the title page and the other for the rest of the document) you can simply change the NUMPAGES field to the SECTIONPAGES field. The problem is that the field codes use the NUMPAGES field to get the desired 'X of Y' type of page numbers. This assumption seems appropriate since Melissa indicated that she was able to basically suppress (hide) the page numbers on the title page and have the first real page start with page 1. Melissa's page layout most likely includes a section break between the title page and the first real page of the document. This field code looks much longer than the handcrafted one presented earlier, but it is essentially the same it just has a few switches added for each of the field codes. When you make one of these choices, the result is a field similar to the following: (Most notably it appears on the Insert tab of the ribbon, in the Header & Footer group, and if you are working within a header or footer, on the Design tab of the ribbon, in the Header & Footer group.) The choices presented by the Page Number tool include a Page X of Y group that provides different ways to insert the formatted page number. You insert these by using the Page Number tool, which can appear on various ribbon tabs. This brings us to the second way to insert the 'X of Y' page numbers-using the pre-defined page number formats in Word. Once collapsed, the first field code displays the current page number and the second displays the total number of pages in the document. Assuming you already know how to add field codes to your document, the finished code would look something like this: First, you can create your own page numbers in this way by using field codes.

You generally construct this type of page number in one of two ways. The X represents the current page numbers, while Y represents the total. The type of page numbers that Melissa is working with are generally called 'X of Y' page numbers. Melissa wonders how she can get the total page count, as shown in the footer, to be correct. It should only show 79 pages, again because of the title page. (The title page isn't counted in the page count.) She got the page numbering to start correctly for her first page, but her footer now says, ' of 80,' ' of 80,' etc. She wants the pages numbered beginning with 1, but that is actually the second page of the document. Melissa has a document that begins with a title page.

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