There is no need for a section break at the bottom of page 300. Please read the links I gave. You are giving advice to someone on how to format something that is, at this time, that person's life's work. You should feel free to give others the benefit of your knowledge and experience, but please be careful.

What WatchDog has asked for here can be accomplished with a single section break if the front matter does not need to be in a table of contents. That section break would be at the end of Page 6, numbered iv. The pagination (or lack thereof) and skipping pages in the front matter can be handled through the first page header (no number) and a calculation field that only displays numbers on certain pages and decreases the number to account for the skipped pages.

If the Roman-numeral pages need to be in a table of contents additional section breaks are needed to restart numbering after the skipped pages.

Attached is a demonstration document with any necessary fields.
This document demonstrates the requested numbering using one section break. It assumes that nothing in the front matter will be used in an automatic table of contents.
It has both sections set to use a different first page header.
The pagination for the front matter is set to not display unless the actual page number is 4 or higher. It is manually formatted using the \* roman switch rather than formatted using the page number formatting. This is so the calculation will work. It calculates a number based on the number a PAGE field gives and then converts that to a lower case Roman numeral.
A next-page section break is inserted on page 6. Numbering restarts there and remains in Arabic format. The number is in a conditional IF field with instructions to only display the page number if it is less than the total number of pages in the section.
Fields can be displayed and edited using Alt-F9.

Attached Files

SamplePageNumbering.doc (62.0 KB, 12 views)