You will need to do this after all other edits in the document as other wise the page numbering may change. The Header& Footer section of the Header & Footer Tools>Design tab of the ribbon and then select the Format Page Numbers item and in the Page Number Format dialog that appears, select the page number that you want to appear on that page from the Start at: Read our Page Numbers lesson to learn more. To get the page number that you want in the Section following the page, click on the Page Number dropdown in Page Number: You can automatically number each page with the Page Number command. That’s it, you have successfully removed the page number from the first page as well as numbered the document from the second page. This will make your second page on the first page. In the dialogue box select Start at and make it 0. Then you can remove the page number from the Section containing the page. Select Format Page Numbers from the drop-down menu. Using Sections in Word 2007, Word 2010, Word 2013, 2016, 2019 and Word 2021 / Word 365 Word uses Section breaks to specify parts of a document that have different page orientation, columns, or Headers and footers. If you want to remove the page number, select the field and delete it. Previous button in the Header and Footer Tools>Design tab of the ribbon. If you want to see a page number, press Alt+F9. You will need to insert Section Breaks to separate that page from the rest of the document, and then in the header or footer, depending upon where you have the pages numbers in both the Section containing that page and the Section after it click Link to