In a Microsoft Word document, how do you number pages starting on the first page of the text?

Insert a "Continuous Break" (Page Layout Tab → Break) under the last entry on the Title page

Double click the Footer of the first page → Header & Footer Tab will open. Move the cursor to the footer on the second page

Click "Link to Previous" in the Header & Footer Tab, then click on Page Number in the Header & Footer Tab. If it happens to start with the number "2", click the Page Number once again → Format page numbers → click "Start at"

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Not knowing your VERSION of Word, I can't give you step-by-step. So here's some stuff to take a look at

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MS Word 2013

Click - "Insert" tab

Click - Page Number

Choose the format you desire.

Every time I try, it puts a page number on every page starting with the title page.

Ask it to start from 0