Originally Posted by hrdwareguy

Open your word doc. Place your cursor on the second page. Click View/Headers and Footers. Put your Page number(starting at 2) in the header. On the Header toolbar, click the button for Page Setup. Put a check in the box for Different First Page. Close the Header and Footer Toolbar. Place your cursor on Page 1. click View/Headers and Footers. Set up your page number on the footer of page 1. Click Close. You should now be done.

This is how it's done in Word XP.