Restart page numbering in chapter

[Randy]

I have a document with several chapters, each seperated by section breaks.
The page numbering starts over in all chapters but one. the numbering is 2-1,
2-2, 3-1, etc.

The chapter that won't restart is Chapter 1, which follows some frontmatter.
The frontmatter page numbers are numbered correctly (i, ii, iii, etc). The
first page of Chapter 1 begins with 2-1 instead of 1-1. I have section breaks
before and after the chapter. All of the other chapters restart the numbering
correctly except this one.

I've opened the footer in Chapter 1 that contains the page number and
changed the page number setting to "start at 1", but this doesn't help. "Link
to previous" is not selected.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Randy

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If the style used for the chapter numbering is part of an outline-numbered
list, make sure you don't have any lower-level heads preceding "Chapter 1."
Also check to make sure that you don't have any empty paragraphs or page
breaks before "Chapter 1" formatted with the heading style it uses.

 

[Randy]

The Chapter 1 title uses "Heading 1" style, and is preceded by a section
titled "References and Drawings" which uses the "Title Centered" style.
There is a page number and section break (next page) between them, but
deleting either or both didn't help. I didn't see any empty paragraphs
between the sections.

In the Page Number Format dialogue box, the "chapter starts with style" is
Heading 1.

I forgot to mention I'm using Word 2003.

 

[Randy]

There is also a page break and section break (next page) between Chapter 1 & 2.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If you'd like to send me a portion of the problem doc, I'll take a look.

 

[Randy]

I wish I could send the document, but it's proprietary to my company and I
can't. I'm having the same problem with Appendix B. The page numbers in
Appendix A are fine (A-1, A-2, etc), but the page numbers in Appendix B start
at A-1. I've followed Shana Kelly's suggestion to change the Chapter Starts
with Style box to choose Heading 6.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Did you include Heading 6 as part of your outline numbering scheme?

 

[Randy]

I applied heading 6 to the appendix titles and the page numbers in the
appendix now work great! Thank you!

Now I just have to get Chapter 1 to start out as 1-1 instead of 2-1...

 

[Randy]

When I select Format>Styles and Formatting, then right-click on Heading 1,
and click "Select all 4 instance(s)", only three are highlighted in the
document. I only have three chapters, so an empty paragraphs or page break
may exist before "Chapter 1". How do I find it and delete it?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

A good start is to display nonprinting characters (see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm). You can also use
Find to search for a given style, and that might easily find it, or you can
use the Browse buttons to Browse by Heading. In a previous case (which was a
problem with a StyleRef field rather than numbering, but a similar issue),
it turned out that the style had been applied to the end-of-cell marker in a
table. The actual table text was in a separate paragraph with a different
style (the user had pressed Enter at the end of the text, leaving the EOC
marker as an empty paragraph), so it was far from obvious.

 

[Randy]

Wow, I even tried deleting everything in the document prior to Chapter 1, and
the page numbering in chapter 1 still started with 2-1.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If you can obfuscate the proprietary info and send me the doc, I'll take a
look (FWIW, I never pay any attention to the content of docs I look at,
anyway).

 

[Randy]

It looks like the problem is within the number for the first chapter. Chapter
1 looks like this:

1. Test Description & Conditions

When I delete everything in the document in front of the chapter title, the
page number remains 2-1. When I delete "Test Description & Conditions", the
page number doesn't change. It's when I delete "1.", that the page number
changes to 1-1 (which is correct). My chapters have to be numbered, though,
so how can I work around this?

I need my chapter numbering, page numbering, and TOC to be correct.

 

[Randy]

I fixed it!!

I double-clicked on the chapter # to open the Bullets and Numbering dialogue
box, went into customize, and toggled the Start at from 1 to 2 and back to 1,
and clicked OK. That made the page number for chapter 1 to change from 2-1 to
1-1.

Weird, but it worked!

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Sometimes Word just needs a swift kick!