I have not waded through the whole thread, and this solution might already have been suggested. If so, please disregard: I took a quick look at the MS Works on my recently acquired Dell and will assume yours is similar. You should be able to force whatever page numbering you want by the somewhat laborious route of first paginating the whole document in the regular manner--either through insert or the the header/footer menus, then inserting a Section Break at the end of each page, specifying in the footer dialogue box for that that this section is to be the first page of a new pagination scheme. Then you type in the number you want. You would have to do this as often as you need to force a difernt number than the one assigned by the system. I would be interested to know if this works.