Click there and you see it goes to Format, Section. You can get out of that by either clicking here or clicking in a blank area like an area outside of the body text. However, if you're working in the document, you're actually typing here or you have and image selected or something, you're going to see under Format things that apply to that selection. Click on a thumbnail there you'll see, under Format, it goes right to Section. One is to click on one of these thumbnails. To get to the Section sidebar there are two ways to do it. The way to do that is to go to the Section sidebar here on the right.
So in page 4 here I want that to be page 7. So it's grouping the sections together with this blue highlight there. If I click on the page after that it highlights page four through the end of the document. I can tell because if I click here in the thumbnails on the left, if you don't see these thumbnails go to View and switch to Page Thumbnails there, if I click on any of these first three pages you can see how it highlights the first three pages like that. You can see now I've got page 3 and page 4. Instead of inserting Page Break I'm going to insert a Section Break. We want to actually make it a separate section. We want to have separate page numbering for this next part. But if I were to insert a page break it would split the page right there and I would go to page 4. So let's say after page 3, somewhere in here we want there to be a page break, and then the new page not to be 4 but to be something like 7. Now let's say we want to skip some pages. Now we can see page number 1 for the Header for that page, then 2, then 3, and so on. Just use something standard like just putting the page number. Now it doesn't make sense to do 1 of 52 if we're going to be skipping pages because that count is not going to be accurate. I'll click here and it's going to give me Insert Page Number, I can click there, and choose one of these options. Let's do it in the Header right in the center. You can do it in either the Header or the Footer for the page. Let's go back to the top and add page numbering. So as you can see I've got a bunch of pages here. I'm going to create a blank document and I'm going to paste in some text here to fill out the document. Let's start by looking at Word Processing.
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So let's take a look at how to get exactly the page numbers that you want. Sometimes you want to skip pages or have a cover page. So I've been getting a lot of questions recently about how to better control page numbering in a Pages' document. Join us and get exclusive content and course discounts. There you could read more about the Patreon Campaign. MacMost is brought to you thanks to a great group of more than 700 supporters.
Today let me show you how to take control of page numbering in Mac Pages. Check out How To Customize Page Numbers In Mac Pages at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.