Okay I'm going to show you how you can add page numbers to a Word document starting at a specific page so I have an example of the end result here where I have a title page with no numbers I have a table of contents with no numbering and then with my introduction there is a page number of one and the next page is 2 3 and so on so what you need to do for this is scroll down to that page that you want the numbering to start on and you're just going to click rate at the very beginning of the page then go to the page Layout tab and then over to breaks and then down to the next page so what that actually did was if you go to the Home tab and then this paragraph marks icon and click on that if you scroll up a bit you'll see that there's a section break so basically what we've done is separated the word document into two separate sections that we can kind of format differently so I'm just going to uncheck that now so the next step is to go to the insert tab and then go over to page number and I'm going to put mine at the bottom of the page and right in the center so now you can see it starts at 3 but I wanted to start at 1 so what I'm going to do is go over to here go to page number format page numbers and start at 1 and click OK so the next step is to uncheck or unlink the page that you're on and the page before it so just click this link to previous just click it once and you'll see that it Sun highlighted now so now you can scroll up and this is my table of contents page and I don't want any numbering on here so at the very bottom of the footer I'm just going to highlight this too and hit the lead on my keyboard so now you'll see that there's no numbering on the table of contents and there's also no numbering on any of the pages that came before it alright so that's it you can go to the print preview to see it in action and title page no numbering say with the table of contents the introduction now is a page number of 1 the next page is 2 so everything works perfectly that's it thanks for watching.