Pagination issues
To achieve the correct page numbers for this exercise, you must use Sections in Word. I’ve got both Word 2007 and 2003. After tussling with Word 2007 last weekend for a couple of hours to make the thesis page numbers come out right, I switched back to 2003. May be no difference but I find 2003 is much simpler.
My “go to” guy on all things computer, Ian, and I discussed this problem this week. He had the added hurdle of using Word on a Mac. Here’s a bit of his experience with the page number beast.
The Section solution works. I now have the thesis in two sections: the regular numbers start on page one of the first chapter and the roman numerals are on the front matter and they start after the title page. But, I have one final problem however: I need to get the roman numerals off two of the front matter pages (copyright and the abstract). Also, Ian mentioned that the Appendices shouldn’t be numbered so there’s a second issue. I gather I’ll have to make more sections. He suggests that I backup each version I’m revising as I fuss around with sections so I can go back to the earlier version if something really gets hosed. I concur.
Given that this formatting issue comes up for every ALM student, it would be beyond “nice” and into the realm of “part of the tuition” for the ALM Manual to have a cheat sheet on this essential task. Or, the ALM website to have a download. Here’s the Microsoft Word help page on this — you can choose to look at 2003 or 2007; and one in 2003 for page and section breaks.
