In situations like this, which may arise when you are collaborating on a project with a team at school or the office, you will need to use some custom page numbering where the page number on the first page of your worksheet needs to start at a number other than 1. Our guide below will show you where to go to change this setting.
Changing the Starting Page Number in Excel 2010
The steps in this article will change the page number that appears on the first page of your Excel 2010 spreadsheet. This guide will assume that you have already added page numbers to your worksheet. If not, you can use this article to add page numbers.
Here is how to change the first page number in Excel 2010 –
These steps are also repeated below with images – Step 1: Open your spreadsheet. Step 2: Click the Page Layout tab at the top of the window.
Step 3: Click the small Page Setup button at the bottom-right corner of the Page Setup section in the ribbon.
Step 4: Click inside the First page number field at the bottom of the Page Setup window, delete the existing value, enter the number that you would like to use as the first page number, then click the OK button.
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