Thanks both for all your comments and help offered, much appreciated.

Hi SoFine.
Sounds like you have the same best job ever - being retired.
:)

Hello.
This is the 'fix' from my son.
If not clear come back to me and I'll forward your message onwards.

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Section Breaks are the right way to do the page numbering...

Yes, of course

But I sent him the file and he worked on it on his own computer, I will be seeing him over the weekend and get him to set down what he did and then post it.

Tried the youtube site but still a problem.
Had a chat with my son, who is in the IT world and he did it straight away.
But many thanks to Caledon Ken and SoFine for your suggestions, greatly...

I tried your suggestion SoFine but split it into three sections
section 1 - pages not to be numbered
section 2 - main part with mostly words
section 3 - contains mainly jpg, pdf and some words...

Removed the "section break" instruction and the page numbering worked BUT not the way I want it.

I want the first seven pages not to be numbered and page 8 to start the numbering at 1.

Read the...

A comment on the Formatting possibility.
What sort or type of formatting might or could cause this problem?

Hi Both

I am using Word 2013.

Did as you suggested, created four pages. First page has 2 at bottom and increasing numbers to page four which is 5.

I have quite a few "Page Breaks," there is...

trying to number pages in a doc. the first page number to start on the sixth age. Followed the Microsoft doc titled " start page numbering later in your document" It is refusing to number all the...