continuous page numbering through section breaks [closed]

Question

The page numbering in footer returns to 1 after every section break in my long document. I'm using Word 2013, odd and even page headers and footers.

What am I missing?

Answer 1

You can check out this post on SuperUser.

Word starts page numbering over for each new section by default.

I do it slightly differently than the post above that goes through the ribbon menus, but in both methods you have to go through the document to each section's beginning.

My method:

• open up the footer (or header if that's where your page number is)
• drag-select the page number
• right-click on it
• hit Format Page Numbers
• click on the Continue from Previous Section radio button under Page numbering

I find this right-click method to be a little faster. Also, usually if I insert the page numbers first before I start making any new sections, this problem doesn't happen in the first place.