Sections are a powerful way to create a complex document that has multiple layouts. With sections, you can do things like change headers and footers in different parts of the document, have a mix of landscape and portrait orientations, use different pages sizes in the same document, and more…
This post explains how to use sections to customise number sequences and/or numbering formats for different parts of a Microsoft Word document. For example, the Table of Contents may be numbered from 1 and use roman numerals. The main content may use regular decimal numbers and have page numbers that start from 1.
By default, the entire Word document uses the same page layout (size, margins and orientation). However, we can use sections…