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Word 2013- Page numbering reset to 0 after using a bulleted list?

Anonymous
2013-03-18T09:05:38+00:00

Ok everyone,

I have been working on a training plan for my company that was started in Word 2013 Preview and I have since upgraded to the full version. Since the beginning, I have been having an issue with page numbering and a table of contents, so I just left them out. Now I am re-working on the project and I want to have page numbers in a header with a table of contents following the title page. However, I am not able to because the page numbering resets to 0 after a bulleted list!

Now, I have tried the obvious answer of taking out the bulleted list, however it sets the page number to 3 (when it is really on page 4 of the document- after the title page of course). I am not sure how to fix this so I contacted Microsoft's "Premium" Support. (I am going to be honest here...) But, I swear that the tech did not know anything about MS Office. It took over an hour for him to finally give up and say (and I am quoting from the original chat log) "James, as I see here that there's nothing wrong with your office 2013. I think you miss something on how to create a table of contents."  

This could not be further from the truth as I have created numerous pages/reports that have used a table of contents and have worked perfectly.

Eventually he said " James, I suggest to manually change the data in your table of contents" and then proceeded to give me a link to a help article. 

What is the point of shelling out $100 for the new office only to be having automatic numbering/table of contents that does not work correctly. The bigger question is why have support staff that does not solve your problems and eventually dismisses you. 

But I digress, can anyone help me solve my problem?

Thank you in advance!

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  1. Doug Robbins - MVP - Office Apps and Services 323K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2013-08-07T22:03:20+00:00

    Put the selection in the area of the document where the page numbering re-starts at 1 and then expand the Page Number dropdown in the Header & Footer section of the Insert tab of the ribbon and click on Format Page Numbers... and then in the Page Number Format dialog, select the option under Page numbering for "Continue from previous section".

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-08-07T17:02:42+00:00

    After some playing around I found that it is not the bulleting but putting content into dual column in the middle of a page that causes the pages to re-number.  Once I cleared that formatting, the pages renumbered properly.  If I re-do the dual column however, the following page re-starts at page 1.

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-02-04T10:42:52+00:00

    Please see my reply to your duplicate question here. And then use Stefan's macro.

    Go to the section page, where the problem exists,

    DONT, click in the header/footer; rather just click in the page,

    Now go through Insert, Page Number, Format Page Number, continue from previous section, sequence.

    Hey Presto!

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  4. Stefan Blom 341.3K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2015-10-28T20:21:44+00:00

    I have the same problem but when I change the format to continue from previous, it sticks until I close the doc and reopen. 

    In my research in the past, I found that it may have to do with objects in the header/footers but when I choose to Select Object, I see nothing.

    I also find it occurs only when I place a next page break with a center of the page formatting in the next page. 

    the question really is:  there should be no circumstances where there is a page zero.  So why would that even be programmed into the software?????

    Page numbering starting at zero is used when you add an envelope to a document, so it has its uses.

    Run the following macro to ensure that page numbering is set to "Continue from previous section" for each section in the document:

    Sub SetContinuousPageNumbering()

    Dim s As Section

    For Each s In ActiveDocument.Sections

    s.Headers(wdHeaderFooterPrimary).PageNumbers _

        .RestartNumberingAtSection = False

    Next s

    End Sub

    For assistance with installation, see http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm.

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  5. Doug Robbins - MVP - Office Apps and Services 323K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2013-03-18T11:28:22+00:00

    If you want to send me the document, I will take a look at it for you.

    However, I will say that there using a bulleted list in the body of the document should have absolutely no effect on the page numbering in the header\footer of a document.

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