Word 2007 not counting first pages

Question

I am trying to write an essay which is a couple of pages long I have 10 pages including the first page but I want it to not say a page number on the first page and on the second page say "Page 1 of 9" how do I reflect this behaviour in Word 2007?

Answer 1

Here is a link from Microsoft with a few steps to follow:

Remove the page number from the first page

Another good link to follow that will give you some more advanced formatting tips for different sections:

http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Page_Numbering.htm

Answer 2

you must do a new "section" starting on page two, then tell word to numbering the pages of the second section