
On the Insert Ribbon, in the Header & Footer Group, click on the arrow next to the Page Number icon and select the positioning you’d like. Scroll up to the section that contains your front matter and click in the footer of any page (don’t do anything for your title page and other pages that don’t require a page number). Any page numbers you put in the body of your document will not affect the page numbering of your front matter, and vice versa. You have now successfully unlinked footers of these sections. Scroll down to the first page of the body of your dissertation (the chapters), make sure your cursor is in the footer, and click the highlighted Link to Previous icon again. Put your cursor in the header area, and again click the highlighted Link to Previous icon. You should now be in the footer of that page in the Header & Footer Tools Design Ribbon, in the Navigation Group, unlink this section’s footer from previous sections’ footer by clicking the highlighted Link to Previous icon. On the Insert Ribbon, in the Header & Footer Group, click on the arrow under the Footer icon and select Edit Footer. Put your cursor on the first page that needs the Roman numeral. Particularly with landscaped pages, it is often helpful to break the connection in the header as well as in the footer. Therefore, if you want different page number styles to vary from one section to the next (such as Roman or Arabic), you’ll need to break the connection between the sections. If you don’t see the section information, right-click on the Status Bar, and select Section in the menu that appears.īy default, the headers and footers of each section are connected to those of the sections before and after it. If you want to see what section you are working in, a the left end of Status Bar (at the bottom of your Word document), Word tells you what page you are on, how many words are in your document, which section you are in, and so on. You have just separated your dissertation into sections. Put your cursor before the first letter of your first chapter and repeat steps 2 and 3. If you turn on the paragraph markers, you should now see a section break on the previous page. On the Page Layout Ribbon, in the Page Setup Group, click on the arrow next to the Breaks icon () and select Next Page under the Section Breaks section. Put your cursor before the first letter of “Dedication” or whatever is the first thing that comes after your copyright page. These steps assume you are including a title page, a copyright page, dedication and acknowledgements and other front matter, and then the body of your dissertation. The following instructions demonstrate numbering a dissertation document according to Rackham’s guidelines. View this video or see the written sections below on how to achieve this. To accomplish this, we are going to divide the document into different “sections”, break them apart (so they can have different page number formatting), and then add the page numbers.
At that point, the numbering should restart in Arabic (“1, 2, 3…”). Page numbering should continue on in roman numerals until the first page of Chapter 1 is reached. For example, Rackham’s guidelines require that the page numbers begin on the third or fourth page of your document (depending on if you include a graphical frontispiece) and the page number on that page should be Roman numeral “ii”. If you are writing a Rackham dissertation, you have more complicated pagination. Choose the appropriate placement of the number and a style. If you want continuous pagination that is all in the same format, go to the Insert Ribbon, and in the Header & Footer Group, click on the Page Number icon. You can set the page numbers for your entire document, or if you need more control, you can do it section-by-section as well. “Roman Numeral”, “Arabic”) and gives you the option of selecting the “starting at” number. Microsoft Word provides you with the option of selecting a numbering style (e.g.