Hi .
Thanks for taking the trouble to help.
The page numbers are not random. They go from 1 to 38
Not sure what you mean by "new section".

I right click on the footer to get to the footer editor and the dots are just above the 'footer' line.
I tried reducing the height of the footer, but that just moved the page number upwards.

I'm baffled........normally settings cover 'all' pages.
Thanks again.
Morris
ps is there some way I could send you the file? I could just send one or two pages that show the problem.