Here are a couple of links provided by a resident contributor to this board that may help you:

How to control the page numbering in a Word document


Sections / Headers and Footers in Microsoft Word 2007-2013

Hi Jim,

Thank you very much for the reply. I actually have come across those links and unless I missed it, they didn't quite solve my problem.

My issue is that when I change page number formatting in the footer, it also changes in the header. However, I'd like to have section numbering in my header, and full document numbering in the footer. So right now, I've gone through each section and at the first page of the section, I've edited the page numbering to start at 1. But, in my footer I'd like the pages to not start over at 1, and continue counting up from the last section.

I hope this makes sense.