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gmayor · 12-26-2017, 09:51 PM

A document has three header ranges for each section, it seems you are using two of them (odd and even pages). You need to insert your page number fields in each, formatted as you require them with whatever text you require.

You will need a section break at the end of page 8. Open the footer view and you will need to ensure that the section following page 8 is not linked to the previous section. You will need to copy the footer from the section where it remains to the footer from where it has now disappeared.

You page number field (CTRL+F9 and type PAGE between the brackets) goes in both odd and even footers of the following section. Set the start number to 1.

I appreciate I have glossed over the detail, but it should be obvious if you understand that each section has separate odd, even (and first page) footers (also headers) available and these are linked by default. So that link must be broken between the section where you want the footer to appear and where you don't and that breaking the link also prevents the footer from carrying on, so you need to copy data common to both section footers from to the other section footers.