Word – Microsoft Word page numbering keeps resetting to 0 after section break

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I have a Word document with two sections and page numbers throughout. The second section is not linked to the previous, since I have other footer elements which would misalign if they were linked. I have set the second section to continue page numbering from the previous section, but each time I save and reopen the document, the numbering in section 2 has reset to page 0.

Is this a bug or is there another setting I should know about?

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I had exactly this problem today. Page number kept restarting to 0 in a new section. It didn't matter if next section was linked or not to the previous. No solution from forums worked (even macro for not restarting numbering at section from this thread).

The solution that worked for me was accepting tracked changes just before, at and after the section and then setting page numbers to continue from previous section one more time. My section was probably inserted in track changes mode and Word couldn't handle it for some reason.

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I ran into a very similar issue not too long ago and came across this Microsoft forum post: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_word-mso_winother/page-numbering-off-when-using-continuous-section/51c65293-25e4-4660-a5f9-ee2c08a70dca

In that post, Stefan Blom posted the following macro that once entered and run solved the page numbering issue:

Sub SetContinuousPageNumbering()
Dim s As Section
For Each s In ActiveDocument.Sections
s.Headers(wdHeaderFooterPrimary) _
.PageNumbers.RestartNumberingAtSection = False
Next s
End Sub

Hope this helps.

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