Add Headers and Page Numbers:

It’s important to do this step here, because it will make things much easier for you later. For this step, you should view your document in a two-page spread.

Double-click in the top margin, either left or right, it doesn’t matter.

In Header & Footer Tools, Uncheck “Link to Previous Section”

The left page header should contain your book’s title; right page is for your author name. You can choose to center these, or align them to the outside margin (just remember the latter is tricky and not for beginners as you’ll have to do some extra work to make sure they behave.) The font size should be a little smaller, 8-11pt depending on the type of font used.

Double-click in the bottom margin, left side.

Header & Footer Tools > Page Number > Bottom of the Page > Page Number 2

This will place your page number in the center of your page. If you’re doing an outside alignment, you can choose that as you desire.

If you’ve centered your number, slide the First Line Indent to the left so the number is truly centered and not indented.

Double-click the page number to highlight it. You can change the font here to match your style.

Highlight or double-click again > Right Click > Format Page Numbers

Choose Start at – and enter 1.

How to treat a scene break:

Text > Blank Line > Scene Break, centered > Blank Line

The next section of text should be aligned to the left.

How to end a chapter:

This is very important!

After your text, before the next chapter …

Insert > Page Layout > Breaks > New Page

Continuing through to the end:

Subsequent chapters start on the next following page, whether it’s a front or back page.

Format the rest of the chapters following the same manner as the first.

Continuing with Headers and Footers:

Your Headers should remain stable, and shouldn’t need any correction. Just check to make sure the book title remains on the left (front page) and author title remains on the right (back page.)

On your second chapter, however, you will need to double-click on the page number on the first page of the chapter, and choose “Continue from previous section.” You won’t need to repeat this step, only this one time.