Correctly formatting page numbers for Turabian in Word can drive you crazy - unless you know the tricks. Let’s take the first few pages of a paper as an example. The first page is the title page followed by a blank page, the Contents page, and the first page of the text of the paper and then the rest of the body of the paper. The title page an the blank page do not have page numbers but still count as pages i and ii, making the Contents page iii and the first page of the text page 1. This is easier than it sounds. Follow these steps:
1. Insert a section break on the blank page and another one after the table of contents.
2. Place your insertion point in the footer on the Contents page. You will probably see the words “Same as Previous” above the footer box. If so, unclick the “Same as Previous” button on the Header/Footer toolbar. Do this for the header and footer on the first and second page as well, and then go back to the footer on the Contents page for the next step.
3. Click the “Insert Page Number” button, and click the “Format Page Number” button. A menu will pop up allowing you to pick the number format, and chose weather to continue numbering from previous section or to start the numbering at a specific number.
4. Set the number format for the Contents page to “i, ii, iii, …” and the “Start at” number to iii. Click “OK.”
The Contents page should now be numbered iii. To number the first page of the body of the paper, go to the footer on the first page of text, and follow step 3 to set the number format to “1, 2, 3, …” and the “Start at” number to 1. Click “OK.” To number the second page of text, click in its header and follow the above steps, but chose to continue numbering from previous section.
These steps should get you started, but you may need to tweak the numbering now and again to get it just right. I hope these steps help!
