If you want to add to the discussion, use the comment box at the bottom of the page. (These comments were from a previous commenting system. If you are creating appendices that need their own numbering stream (A1, A2, B1, B2, etc.), just repeat the process to create a new section. Now you can format the numbering in the body of the document and it won’t change the numbering in your front matter. If Link to Previous is grayed out, it means you only have one section in your document so there are no sections to link or unlink.) Once you hover over the words the button appears. (To deselect Link to Previous, just click the words. This breaks the connection between the footer in this new section and the footer in the previous section. On Header & Footer Tools tab, in the Navigation group, deselect Link to Previous.This activates the Header & Footer Tools tab on the ribbon. Go to the bottom of the first page of this new section and double-click inside the footer.Be careful not to delete the section break (you can see it by pressing Ctrl+*). You may need to remove a few line breaks to bump your content back up to the top. The cursor jumps to the next page (or creates a new page if there is no next page).Click Breaks, then under Section Breaks, select Next Page.On the ribbon, select the Page Layout tab and find the Page Setup group.Insert your cursor at the bottom of the last page of your front matter.To create sections so you can style the page numbers, follow these steps: Then each section can have its own numbering sequence and style. Submitted by Stephen from the United Statesįormatting page numbers differently for the various parts of your Microsoft Word document can be accomplished by creating sections. Basically, I want to be able to format page numbers with Roman numerals and traditional numbers as well.