I have struggled and struggled for nearly two weeks trying to do this and am frustrated with how opaque and confusing this is. Can someone tell me the steps I need to do to set up page styles (if possible) so that I can properly typeset a document?

I have one type of page that's simply "Day One" (or "Day Two" etc.) centered in the middle of the page, with no header or footer. That has to be an odd page, and it's followed by a blank even page.

Then there's "Chapter One" (or "Chapter Two," etc.) which have 10 lines of space, then "Chapter XYZ," another ten lines, and the starting paragraphs. These first chapter pages need no header, but have to have a center-justified page number in the footer.

Then there's Even, Odd "regular" pages that have a header and footer that's justified so that the Even pages have left justification and the Odd pages have right justification. For the Even pages, the header needs "Author" in the upper left, and the page number in the far lower left. For the Odd pages, the header needs "Title" in the upper left and the page number in the far lower left.

I've gotten as far as creating some section breaks but it's hard to know which ones I need to make this happen. Are those three different sections?

And ideally, once I set it up for the Days page, for example, I'd like to be able to APPLY this same look and feel to other places in the book, rather than have to go to each one and recreate it all from scratch.

My thought is if I could apply the last type through the whole book first, then adjust just the Days and Chapter pages...

Sorry to put all this out there but I've just been so frustrated and demoralized. I even tried this in OpenOffice and it seems much easier but I don't have the fonts that I want there. So I'd really love to get it working right in Word. If anyone has done this kind of thing and knows the right process it would be fantastic. I seem to do one thing and then suddenly all the headers have disappeared, or I apply a style and it adds a page that I didn't want into the document and then all the Odd pages are even and the Even pages odd...

A huge thank you to anyone out there who can help me with this. THANK YOU!!!!