Thank you Paul for the demo doc! That's very helpful. Much appreciated. I'm hanging onto this for future reference.

I found out yesterday afternoon that there is less of a need for the "...of Y" page numbering in this particular doc. It's a template actually, that I am developing for a company. So I found out this template is for doc types that don't typically run over 15-20 pages in total length. So simple page numbering with no start-overs is fine.

I also asked specifically how they plan to use this two columns in a doc. Reason is just to be able to have bulleted lists in two columns if need be. It's nothing that would spill onto a second page. So in the template I'm suggesting an alternate method of doing this as well: the two-column 'invisible' table to contain the text.

Now I am having another problem with the simpler "Page X" numbering. The numbering wants to start over after the continuous breaks. I've even deleted the numbering and re-inserted numbering a couple of times, but the page after the one containing the two breaks is always "Page 2". It ignores the fact that "Continue from previous list" is set. What a PITA.

I'm kinda new to Word 2013 actually. Only had it about a two years and docs I have been writing were pretty simple up until now. But years ago I put together a 100+ page doc for my team using Word 2003 and it had numerous section breaks throughout, because some pages had to be flipped to landscape for diagrams. I don't recall having this kind of headache with numbering on that doc.