Right-click in the blank part and choose New. In that window, click the Page Styles icon at the top. I want no page number on the first page and page number 1 on the 2nd page.Ĭhoose Format > Styles and Formatting. (They mostly all are, but you might not need to get more detail on all of them.)

This sample document I'm using has some text that clearly goes on a cover page, and then it runs immediately into the content text that should start on page 2.įor any of these images, just click on any of them that are too small for you to read. Remove any page breaks you've put in between the first and second pages.

Page styles are actually a really nice, useful feature.īring up the document you're working with. I'm going to show you the most straightforward which is just to create a page break, switch to a different page style, and specify what the page number for that page is.: 1, 42, 623, or anything else. You control the second a few different ways. You control the first with page styles: you set up the page style, say 'yes, there's a footer and a page number in it' or 'no, no stinkin' page numbers here' and then apply that page style. If there is a page number in the footer, what that page number is. whether there is any number at all in there, regardless of what it is. Whether there is a page number in the footer-i.e. There are two things to control in this situation:

I would like to see a checkbox/field combination somewhere that would let you specify 'For this document, start the page footer on page _ and make the first page number be _'. It's actually not more complex than the tax code, but there's some setup you need to do that's a little more complicated than the task at hand. (Or how do you have a landscape page in a portrait document?) How do you have no page number on the first page, then have the second page start with the page number 1 in the footer? Or with page number 42, or 623?

It's the elephant in the room, and it's time to address it.

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