ShowFirstPageNumber Property

True if the page number appears on the first page in the section. Read/write Boolean.

expression   Required. An expression that returns a PageNumbers collection object.

Remarks

Setting this property to True automatically adds page numbers to a section.

Example

This example checks to see whether the page number appears on the first page in the active document.

Set myDoc = ActiveDocument
first = myDoc.Sections(1).Headers(wdHeaderFooterPrimary). _
    PageNumbers.ShowFirstPageNumber
Msgbox "This document shows numbers on the first page - " & first

This example adds page numbers to the active document.

ActiveDocument.Sections(1) _
    .Headers(wdHeaderFooterPrimary).PageNumbers _
    .ShowFirstPageNumber = True