It’s the “link to previous” function that does the magic.
Don’t put anything in the footer of the first section. In the second section (the main part of the brief), insert a page number, then, in the “Format Page Number” dialog box, set the starting page number to 1. Do this even if you have a different footer for the first page of the section. The numbering of the pages will start at 1, even if you choose not to print a page number on the first page. Insert a page number in the footer of the second page – it will be 2.
Right.
More accurately, you *don’t *want to link to previous.
Really, that should be the default, rather than the other way around.
Here where I work, we have a handy macro that unlinks all the headers and footers in a document, no matter how many sections there are. Useful when you’ve got a 500-page document with multiple sequences of page numbers, parts of the document that switch from portrait to landscape, etc.
It looks like this when done: Imgur: The magic of the Internet
Or if you want to see the actual word doc: https://1drv.ms/w/s!Aj4Ac_NG7WeYryLLAA_W4AiBDC0W
Disconnecting the headers and footers is only half the battle. You still have to delete the page number from the first section if it’s there. Simply disconnecting the headers and footers doesn’t change the content of the headers and footers.
Well, the brief is filed. I will bookmark this page for the next time I grapple with MS-Word. Thanks all.
Now empty the big chunk that’s the actual brief (unless you make a lot of similar ones) and save it as a Template, or simply as a regular document called BriefModel or somesuch. Next time you won’t have to redo all that pain in the keys formatting, sectioning and numbering work.