Welcome to UCT Lbrary's YouTube
channel. In this video we will show you how
to insert page numbers to your thesis.
Accurately inserting page numbers and
separating the preliminary pages from
the rest of your thesis is a big part of
formatting your thesis. To demonstrate
this we will start with inserting an
unnumbered title page
separating preliminary text from the
rest of the thesis using Roman and
Arabic numerals. To start off with you
will need to insert section breaks.
These different page breaks as they separate
the document into different sections,
as opposed to separating the pages. Section
breaks are always inserted at the bottom
of the last page of the section that you
want to separate. Showing the paragraph
marks is always helpful when formatting.
Put your cursor at the bottom of the
title page. Select page layout page from the
top menu, go to breaks and select the
next page option to insert a section
break.
Next we will insert a page break at the
bottom of the final page of your
preliminary pages.
Once you have done that we will start
inserting the page numbers.
Click within the preliminary section,
select insert on the top menu from the
drop-down menu and page numbers
select format page numbers. From the
numbers format, select Roman numerals as
well as start at and enter the later I.
This is important as this tells Word to
start a new number sequence in the
section.
Now you can insert the page numbers
wherever you choose.
Always make sure that the link to
previous option is deselected on the
design tool. To insert numbers for the raest
of the thesis,
click in the thesis section, select
insert on the menu tab page numbers
format page numbers and make sure
Arabic numerals are selected. Click on
start at and enter the number one
now insert your page numbers and make
sure the link to previous is not
highlighted. And that you insert different
numbered pages to your thesis.
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