For the title pages, you want to set each section to have a different first
page header, via File | Page Setup, Layout (or maybe Margins, I forget).
Then the first page header/footers can be empty.
See also, as this is all explained here:
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/HeaderFooter.htm
And I suspect this might be useful too:
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NumberingFrontMatter.htm
> I seem to have found how to do the first bit by just using the "same as
> previous section" toggle, but not the second part of my question
>> I probably should have sorted this out first, but I have about 5 twenty
>> page documents that I need to link together. I am OK to do that and can F9
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>>
>> tks in advance

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