Ok, so I told you about adding page numbers to your footer in my last post and promised to tell you about navigating sections in my next post. So this is it and it pertains to Microsoft Office 365 Word.
If you have already created section breaks in your Word document you know that one great feature and time saving shortcut in Word is using the Go To command to navigate your long documents by section.
Follow the steps below to learn how:
- From the Home tab on your Ribbon, in the Editing group, click on Find | Go To or press CTRL +G. This will open the Find and Replace window to the Go To tab.
- Then, in the Go to What window, you can select Section and click the Next button to navigate your document by section. If you have very long (100 plus page documents) this makes navigating to these sections very quick and easy, especially for page numbering tasks.
- So with my document, I navigated to the preface section. With my insertion point in this section, I can now format the page numbers in this section. Go ahead and create your own document and follow along. There is no rush here.
Moving on now, to formatting page numbers:
Follow the steps below to learn how:
- Go to Insert | Header & Footer and click Page Number.
- Inside the menu, click Format Page Numbers, which will open the Page Number Format window.
- Select the Roman numeral number format.
- Select Start at i.
- Click OK.
- Return to the TOC and click Update Table | Update page.
Using the next page section break will allow a bit of flexibility when used with other Word features like the TOC and page numbers.
So now you have learned ways to break up a chapter into a variety of different sections so that you can use other tools and features in Word to visually breakup your documents and communicate to readers where they are within your longer documents.