Different page formats in Microsoft Word 2007

I normally use LaTex in preparation of my documents. I don't use Microsoft Word because it is very "crude" in many simple features for document preparation like bibliography generation, page renumbering etc.

This other time a colleague wanted me to help with the problem of numbering a Word 2007 document with different page formats. It took us a lot of hours of googling to find the solution. In our googling, we noted there are also a lot of people out there who spent their time to accomplish such a trivial task and we could not find a clear answer to the problem. However, we managed to come up with a solution after several trial and error attempts. Hence we hereby share the solution for this trivial but time wasting task.

1. Place cursor at a point in your document that would separate two sections of your document.
   
2. Go to Page Layout menu then click on breaks
   
3. Then choose section break (not page breaks). You will then have your document separated into two sections at the point you put your cursor.
   
4. You can now apply appropriate page numbering formats for each of the sections. You can modify the page number formats through the footer or header.