There are many times when you might want to have two different numbering schemes in the same document. It is not unusual at all. Perhaps you are putting together a technical manual. You may want to have something like page x of y in the header of each page of your document, which would be showing that you are on page 2 of that current section. But on the footer of the very same page, you may want it to just have a number, such as 25, which means you are on page 25 of that entire document.
Since page numbering is an attribute of sections, you cannot have two different numbering schemes in the same section of your document. There are, however, fields provided by Word for just such a purpose. Below are the only page number fields available to you in Word:
PAGE – This field indicates the current page number. If you do not modify it by restarting the current section or changing the starting p[age number, it represents the current page number for your document as a whole.
SECTIONPAGES – This field indicates the total number of pages in the current section. Should your document consist of one section, then it represents the total number of pages in your document as a whole.
NUMPAGES – this field indicates the total number of pages in your entire document.
Follow the steps below to use two numbering schemes in your document:
Be certain you separate the sections of your document using a Next Page section break.
Make sure that the headers and footers of each section are not connected to those of the previous section.
Be certain that the page numbering for each section starts at 1.
Just before your section break, at the end of each section, add a bookmark: Section 1 bookmark is A, Section 2 is B, etc.
In the header of each section put the following text and compound field (the curly brackets indicate fields, which you add by clicking Ctrl + F9.
Page {page} of {pageref {section \ * alphabetic }}
Now update the fields in what you just entered and word will display Page 1 of 3, etc., where the first number is the page number in the section and the second is the total number of pages the section.
In the footer of section 1, place {page} of {numpages}. This will give just the page number and the total number of pages in your document.
In the footer of page 2, place the following compound field, which gives the number of pages in the previous section plus the page number of the current section:
{ = [pageref A} + {page}} of {numpages}
In the footer of section 3, place the following compound field:
{pageref B} + {pageref B} + {page}} of {numpages}
In the footer of each section after that, place an increasingly long field-based formula, following the same pattern shown above. You will want each formula to result in the total count of pages in all sections prior to the section in which the footer is located, along with the page number within that particular section.