I recently taught an Intermediate Word 2003 class, and this was a question posed by one of the students:
I occassionally create documents with cover pages. How do I set up Word so that the first page in a document is the unnumbered cover page? What I'd like to see happen is for the second page in the document to be numbered page 1.
In order to do this, you would have to work with Word 2003's section break features. Here are the step-by-step instructions.
1 - Insert a New Page Section Break on the 2nd Page.Switch to the 2nd page of your document.
Go to the Insert menu, and click Break.
Under Section Break Types, Choose Next Page.
(At this point, you can click View, then Normal to see the section page break - this is optional).
2 - View the Header and Footer Menu. Click the View menu, then Header and Footer.
If you'd like to put the page number in the footer, click the button to Switch to Footer.
3 - Delete the link between the 1st and subsequent page(s) headers and footers. On the Header and Footer toolbar, you will notice the Link to Previous section button is highlighted.
Click the Link to Previous button. This removes the link between the 1st page header/footer and the rest of the document's headers/footers.
4 - Insert your page numbers.On the Header and Footer toolbar, click the button to insert the number of pages. Since you've deleted the link to the previous section, Word will start numbering on the second page of your document.