Thank you both for your advice

When I got home out of despiration I created a new document in Word 2010.

My document contains several sections which I have called 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 etc, it has a title page and a TOC.

When I created the new document I merely copied the title page, then did Insert Next Page, then copied across the TOC and again did Insert Next Page.

I then copied each section across (1.0, 2.0..) starting each section on an inserted next page.

When I did the page numbering on this document it worked fine, and saved it in 2003 format.

Ideally I would like to exclude the title page and TOC from page numbering and start on what is the third page, and to exclude the first to pages from the total page count aswell, happy to get my other problem sorted first though!

Thanks again,
Dave