# Act-Scene-Page numbering for a play in Microsoft Word 2011

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**Created:** [December 23, 2015, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/act-scene-page-numbering-for-a-play-in-microsoft-word-2011/741155 "2015-12-23T05:57:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![SanibelMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@SanibelMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanibelMan)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2015, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/act-scene-page-numbering-for-a-play-in-microsoft-word-2011/741155/1 "2015-12-23T05:57:14Z")

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Does anyone have experience with setting up page numbering for a play in Word? I’m retyping a script from the 70s for a playwright friend of mine, and he’d like for the page numbers to be formatted such that it starts with I-i-1, I-i-2, and so on until Act I, Scene ii, which would be I-ii-1, and so forth. I can’t figure out an easy way to do this, even with setting up section breaks in-between scenes. Alternatively, I would be fine with adding the page numbers manually if I could make the headers unique on each page, but I can’t figure out how to do that either. I’ve googled all the keywords I could think of for play formatting to no avail. Thanks for any assistance.

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**Author:** ![Urbanredneck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ea5d25/32.png) [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2015, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/act-scene-page-numbering-for-a-play-in-microsoft-word-2011/741155/2 "2015-12-23T06:16:30Z")

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I dont think they use Word at all for this purpose. There seems to be an alternate script writing software.

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**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2015, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/act-scene-page-numbering-for-a-play-in-microsoft-word-2011/741155/3 "2015-12-23T06:46:11Z")

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Insert a footer  
center or right align the text or leave it left aligned as you wish  
in the footer type I-i-  
insert a page number – choose at the current location and choose plain  
Close the footer

When you finish scene i, put in a section break  
Insert a new footer  
make sure it is not linked to continue from the previous  
when putting in the page number, choose to make it not continue from the previous section  
in the footer type I-ii-  
insert a page number – choose at the current location and choose plain  
Close the footer  
repeat

You can automate this by choosing the multilevel list button, I believe, but it’s probably not worth it for a one shot.

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**Author:** ![SanibelMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@SanibelMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanibelMan)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2015, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/act-scene-page-numbering-for-a-play-in-microsoft-word-2011/741155/4 "2015-12-24T00:38:38Z")

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Thanks, that worked.