Hi Ann, I'm sorry I didn't get to reading this till now, and I should, since I scanned the book. Print pages, that is, the story, start where the first chapter starts. The page numbers were at the bottom of every page. I'm not sure if you changed anything in proofing the book, but I think the first real page of text was page 9 of what is your word document, give or take a page. Hope this helps, and sorry again for the delay. Ell