Page-numbering question: continue numbering from one section to the next? {PAGE} of {SECTIONPAGES}

[SDwriter]

Hi all. Here is my situation: I have a Word 2013 doc and it has a section break after the first five page's "i" thru "v" pages. On the sixth page I restart the numbering, using the "Page 1 of X" format. It works great like this so long as I used the field codes of:

{ PAGE } of { SECTIONPAGES}

In other words, in my 20-page (actual) document, that sixth page correctly shows "Page 1 of 15" and the last page shows as "Page 15 of 15". This is all great.

But now I have a problem because I needed to format part of one page in there to be two columns, which from what I know can only be achieved by bracketing that text with "continuous" section breaks. So now the numbering is screwed up:

• On pages lower than the 2-column section, the "of 15" changes to show the number of pages only up to the next section break. (I know why this is happening of course. It's displaying the # of pages in that section.)
• On ever page beyond the 2-column section, both the page numbering itself resets to 1 and the "total" count resets to however many pages remain in the doc.

Is there a way (a field?) for the numbering to continue as before and count up to the end correctly, across these newly inserted section breaks? FYI, I tried Format page numbering > Continue from previous list for the subsequent sections but it has no effect.