I have been trying to get Microshaft word 2008 for Mac to start page numbers only on page 3. I have a title page, a table of contents, and then the body of my document. I have created a section at the bottom of the table of contents. Then in the footer, to the next section, I have tried to insert page numbers. BUT it routinely adds page numbers to the bottom of the first section as well. SO I have page 1 on the title page, page 2 on the table of contents; then I have page 1 on the first page and so on. Click to expand.
Congratulations - you are trying to do some of the most complicated things in Microsoft Word. And I am NOT kidding. The page numbering feature has been broken in the Windows versions of Word since - ever. And I don't expect the Mac version to be any different. There are howtos and knowledgebase articles explaining how it can be done, but in my experience, none of them ever really worked. I assembled a master thesis once by breaking the original Word document into multiple Word documents, each with its own numbering.
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You can breaks all the pages you want to remove numbering to single pages and then you have many single pages numbered as 1. Now you can choose option 'Different First Page' for all of your single page sections, that's it. Remove the checkmark from the Show Number on First Page box However, I only see a box that lets me insert the numbers and change the position to the top of the page. 
I don't see anything that allows me to align it to the right and there is no box that says Show Number on First Page.