This tutorial teaches you how to begin page numbering on any
page after the second page in a document in Microsoft Office
Word 2007. To begin page numbering on the first page of a
document is a simple matter. Click on the Page Number button in
the Insert ribbon and select one of the various options. Then,
to start the numbering on the second page, click the Different
First Page box that appears on the Header and Footer > Design
ribbon. But starting the numbering after the second page is not
as simple and, surprisingly, is not a task that readily presents
itself to a Microsoft Office Word 2007 user. Why exactly would
you want to begin page numbering after the second page? Perhaps
you have a title page plus a table of contents or a number of
other front matter pages. Or there may be some unique reason
specific to your document. One way around this is to create two
documents: one with the pages that won't be numbered, and one
with the pages that will be numbered. However, this is a
needless and awkward fix that