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Section Breaks and Page Numbers
Section Breaks and Page Numbers
Numbers
**Note: All graphics in this presentation were simply pulled from the internet and are meant to approximate
the appearance of the dialog boxes/menu buttons you should see and select. Do not refer to the values
shown in the graphics for help in formatting your work. When the values in the graphics match the values I
suggest, the coincidence is purely accidental.
Section Breaks
Why you should use them
How they function
How to create them properly
In the beginning
Start with the first page of chapter 1.
If you dont have a title listed, put it in, even as
a place holder - e.g.:
CHAPTER ONE
WILL GO RIGHT HERE
Move the cursor so that it is just before the
C of CHAPTER.
Format this page
This should be starting to feel familiar Repeat these instructions for all chapters.
Front matter
Insert a section break before the title of
chapter one.
This will automatically number the new
blank page as 1 and change the value of
the first page of chapter one to 2.
Front matter
Edit the page number by clicking in the footer on
the first page of chapter one.
Under page number format select start at and
enter 1 as the value. You will now have 2 pages
which show 1 at the bottom of the page.
Front matter
Return to the first page of chapter one and
break the links in the header and the
footer to the previous page the new front
matter page you created.
You are now ready to create/insert your
front matter
Title Page
Create your title page, following the
template on the formatting webpage.
Do not insert a page number at the bottom
of this page.
At the end of the date of degree conferral,
insert another section break.
Copyright page
Either leave this page blank or insert your
copyright, formatted as shown in the
template
Single-space this page
Insert a section break after the last
character/at the top of the page if left
blank.
acknowledgments
Optional
This is the first page that will show a page
number if you choose to include this
section
Open the header/footer toolbar. Break the
links to previous header and footer.
Insert a page number bottom center and
format to use lower-case roman numerals.
Table of contents
If you choose to include a dedication and/or
epigraph, insert them after the acknowledgments
and before the TOC.
Make them just like you made the title page and
copyright page create new sections, start them
on the next page and do not insert page
numbers.
Make sure you break the link to the previous
page if you insert a dedication or epigraph
Table of contents
To remove the extra space between the
title (TABLE OF CONTENTS) and the
margin, simply reduce the header value
to something below 1 inch.
Whenever you change the header/footer
values to bring the text closer to the
margin, change for this section only so
you dont move the page numbers in other
sections.