OK, I'm not going to tell you how much I want to strangle the last living breath out of Microsoft right now, but I need to preface this post by saying that I am angry as hell.




Adding line numbers to my MS Word documents has always been a fifteen second deal -- no hassles, no challenges, no having to Google a dozen different video tutorials that lead to nowhere.


Suddenly, I can't add page numbers to a document in Word 2019. It will number the first page and, sometimes, the third or fourth page, but nothing else. It's also adding a line that I do not want above the page number.


The tutorials start out simple and straightforward, then they inevitably lead to a step telling me to click on a menu item that simply doesn't exist -- as if I am the only person in the world with the version of Word that I own.


I cannot understand why Microsoft keeps changing simple commands to make them more and more difficult and exasperating to execute. That said, can someone please tell me why none of the MS Word tutorials or help menus can help me complete this task that should take a few seconds and has now eaten up half my evening? Better yet, can you provide step-by-step instructions for adding page numbers to EVERY PAGE in the SAME EXACT SPOT on every page and in a way you are certain will work? (In other words, please do not link me to Microsoft's useless help pages and please do not send me to a YouTube video from 2008.) Thank you very much!!!!