Arthur itus:

I don't think you can do it much simpler than my second post (04:01 PM) - which you may have cross-posted with; but the best way to get it done depends on how your brain wraps around the thing.

Your method is what I called the "kiddie method" at the bottom of the preceding post at 03:42 PM. You're creating a first page without a header/footer, and adding a new header/footer for the next section begining on page 2. This works in simple documents, but using the "Different First Page" setting makes it actually much easier to control page number re-starts and continuations if the document gets into additional multiple sections like preface, chapters, appendices, index, postscripts, etc. (Her document already has multiple sections since she indicated a Prologue.) With your method, if she edits the first page so that it runs into a page two, she may have to start from scratch to repaginate the entire document. Using the "Different First Page" option lets the document take care of it automatically.

The scary part of tech support is figuring out what kind of loose nut is in front of the keyboard. We'll have to wait for kat to choose what she finds most comfortable - but I doubt we'll know all that much about how she's processing the info even if she tells us what worked. (No offense, kat. We all think differently.)

Next she'll want to know how to put "Page xxx of yyy" in the footers like the big boys & girls do in techy documents. (Note: It's probably a trick question.)

John