Comments like this one do not help. Trust me...I am not an idiot and I am not imagining that these solutions aren't working. In fact, I am now replying from my laptop, which has Word 2016 on it As an experiment, I opened a new Word document and inserted page numbers. Worked like a charm the very first time, like it always has for me. So something is f-ed up with the newer version of Word.


Regarding the issue of starting my numbers several pages into the document, that still isn't happening, despite having tried all the solutions offered here. Although I want to skip numbering on, say, the first six pages, I do not want the numbers to begin with Page 7; I want them to begin ON Page 7, but denote Page 7 as Page 1. Maybe I didn't make that clear. Given this info, can anybody help?

1. Insert a section break between pages 6 & 7
2. On page seven, go to the header/footer where you want the page number to go.
3. Do NOT just insert a page number.
4. Instead, got to the menu: Insert > Quick Parts > Field
5. Insert SectionPages -- that's a page number based on the current section, not the document as a whole.