What I am about to show you will NOT work if you have not set up your paper into separate sections, so if you did not read Lessons 1-3, go back and read them now.

Never ever ever use Page Numbers from the Insert menu again. To insert page numbers we will now work directly with our headers and footers.

  1. Thus the first thing we need to do is to show our headers and footers. Go to the menu bar and press View, and then Header and Footer. This not only will show you your header and your footers, but will automatically position your cursor in the header of the page you are currently working on.

  2. Also, you should now see the Header and Footer toolbar:

  1. You might have notices that one button on the Header and Footer toolbar is shaded. This button allows you to control how the header (or footer) of each section links to the header (or footer) of the previous section. When it is shaded, you will see the words Same as Previous, at the top right hand corner of your header (or footer). This means that the header (or footer) for this section will be like the header (or footer) of the section before it. Since this is NOT what you want, click on the button. Now the button is no longer shaded and the words Same as Previous no longer appear at the top right hand corner of your header (or footer).

  2. You must perform the same action with all the headers and footers in your paper. Word has three buttons that will facilitate your movement:

    Switch Between Header and Footer
    for a given section

    Show Previous
    takes you to the previous section

    Show Next
    takes you to the next section

    BEFORE YOU DO THAT, if you have not yet written any of the text of your paper (which is probably the case if you have been following this tutorial from the beginning), be forewarned that right now you will not be able to see Section 3. So either wait until you have written some text to insert the page numbers, OR insert a page and a half of paragraph marks in the body of your paper. This will allow you to see Section 3 so that you can insert the page numbers correctly (steps 5-8 below). Once done inserting the page numbers (after step 8), you can safely erase the paragraph marks without loosing the formatting you just did.

  3. Once all your header and footers are disconnected, it is time to insert your page numbers. I suggest that you start by positioning yourself on the first text page, that is the page after your title page, to insert your first page number. Thus position yourself in the correct location, that is that is the Footer of Section 2, and press the Insert Page Number button.
     

  4. You will most likely find out that the number that has just been inserted is a 2. Now you really want a 1 on this page, so to change this you will have to format your page numbers by pressing the Format Page Number button.  This will open a dialog window where, under Page numbering you can set Start at to 1 and  then click on OK. Now you will notice that your page number changed from a 2 to a 1, just what you wanted! Make sure this number is centered according to Turabian 14.9, and you are done with section 2.

  5. Now position yourself in the Header of Section 3, and inset a page number by pressing the Insert Page Number button (you only insert it once for the whole section). Don't forget that since section three is the rest of your paper (excluding bibliography or appendices), the page numbers need to right justified according to Turabian 14.9.

  6. You have now successfully inserted page numbers. Double check that there are no page numbers anywhere on the title page, or at ten top right corner of the first page, or at the bottom of the succeeding pages. If that is the case: CONGRATULATIONS!

 

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