Everyone just wants a quick easy fix and flattering promises, check for yourself. Work out how you are going to publish and work back from that as what is the most suitable software to use, and, I know this is hard in this day and age, don't believe everything everyone tells you. Pages '09 is much more capable and I would not recommend that for a serious book. pages format that no publisher wants and that Apple keeps changing and making incompatible with its own older OSes, it gets slower and less reliable as the document grows and has problems with footnotes, bullets, lists spellchecking and indexing amongst other things. Hence, there are a series of 1 to x number, followed by 1 to x again and so on - no prefixes, just the page numbers. The question remains why are you using Pages for your book. If you have numbering appear in the first section delete it. Then insert the Page Number by right clicking in the Header or Footer where you want it. Then in the next Section set that to not continue from the first section and to start at 1. I need this out and shiny as possible as soon as possible.īasically you insert a Section Break at the end of the last page you want no numbers. Pages was sold to me as a professional level program. I've deleted and re-inserted section breaks in all possible ways, and this just keeps happening.ĭid they remove the feature and not update the help pages? ĭo I have to create a new document and paste in things according to each section?ĭo I have the wrong editing software to do all this in anyway? If so, what should I be using to do this?Īlso, why does an allegedly professional-grade editing program not have drop letters as an option? This is a mild annoyance that I can work around but really, I want a professional-grade book. In the Page Number Format window, set the Number format to i,ii,iii, Under Page numbering, select Start at and set the number to i. With the cursor in the footer, click Page Number and then Format Page Numbers. Since my income is at stake on this, I'd appreciate a swift response and useful things I could do about this very annoying state of affairs. If you see a page number in the footer (at the bottom of page), select the number and press the Delete key. Here we will learn how to change the footnote Numbers. I can't find the 'Start at' part of the Section Layout to save my soul. You can easily restart the footnote number at 1 after every page breaks by following a few steps. The problem is that the Pages Help on this topic seems to refer to an older version where this was possible. The first six (6) pages need to not have page numbering and all the rest need to start from one (1).

It's almost ready to go fully public except for one thing. I'm an Indie Author with a novel I'm publishing in Lulu.

Restart page numbering word for a mac?